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in thread How would you use perl debugging tools to pinpoint the problem here?

It's not crashing at all. A hash with 10 million elements is huge! Allocating a hash of that size -- at least 100MB, I bet -- takes time, and if the OS starts using virtual memory, it'll take forever.
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