in reply to why filling Hash seems slower on unixes than windows ?

Have you tried pre-sizing your hash by using keys in lvalue context?
my %h; keys %h = 80000; ...
This could give you a big performance boost on both platforms.

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Re^2: why filling Hash seems slower on unixes than windows ?
by vmpilgrim (Initiate) on Jan 05, 2008 at 04:02 UTC
    Yes .. i used this and the performance of hash has increased a lot ...it now takes only 5/6 seconds to fill the hash....Thanks a lot..