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in thread Combining Ultra-Dynamic Files to Avoid Clustering (Ideas?)

I was thinking RECNO, not a BTREE (right?), and you're right, I missed the point :) So the idea is neither relevant nor any good, just a curiosity of whether the following...

           my @h ;
           tie @h, "DB_File", $filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666, $DB_REC
+NO;
           # starting with something like...
           $h[512_000_000] = "orange";

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would behave like presizing a real array which saves on overhead generated by growing and shrinking it. I just tried a bit of test code and some rather unscientific times of it shows it makes little difference and if it does, it's slightly against the pre-sizing.

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