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  1. As I didn't have a database I could use, then I would definitely use that scheme. Ideally, I would've stored everything in a database.
  2. 8k classes? Yes, in the kind of situation I described earlier. 500k instances? Uhhh ... assuming you used 1k of RAM per instance, which is a lowball estimate, you would need 500M of RAM, just for those objects. If you're doing something that resource-intensive, you probably need it to actually complete running before the Sun dies. So, you're probably not writing it in Perl. Either that or you should've use a database.

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