in reply to Compression of a mini-database in memory

Can you say something about why you believe you need to keep %table "very small in memory"? 200 key/value pairs of the size you show above won't take up a significant amount of space (unless you're on a very, very constrained machine).

Is there something about your constraints that you haven't mentioned, or wish to clarify?

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Re: Re: Compression of a mini-database in memory
by meonkeys (Chaplain) on Feb 17, 2001 at 01:21 UTC
    My main concern is keeping the mod_perl process size down. However, after merlyn's response, I'll probably just use MySQL. I have no way to know what the size of %table is in memory.
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