Re^3: Sorting data that don't fit in memory (DBM::Deep)

The hashkeys are not stored sorted, no. But, in doing a sort (and I could be wrong), Perl doesn't necessarily pull all the data into memory. If it does, then I would certainly accept help in getting Perl to do the sort in the way you're describing.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^4: Sorting data that don't fit in memory (DBM::Deep) by tye (Sage) on Oct 10, 2007 at 17:24 UTC
Then you might want to test your suggestion of using sort on an enormous DBM::Deep'd array. I'm not convinced that it will be easy to actually avoid using huge amounts of memory or that it will be reasonably fast. More detailed instructions on how to accomplish the former might be helpful and you might find improvements to make while looking at the latter. - tye	[reply]