Re^2: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

Plus, depending on the number of lines in the INFILE, you probably swamped the DB by not keeping the $dbh outside of the while.

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Re^3: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Nov 25, 2004 at 13:43 UTC
Quite. Not to mention that particular app connected to a mysql instance that was about 5 router hops away over not-the-fastests links. Connect times averaged 5s, which really reared its ugly head when the input file was 2_000 lines. ;-) radiantmatrix `require General::Disclaimer;` Perl is	[reply]