Thanks, the Alias module really made a big difference. It gives some strange errors in my multiprocessed code (using threads):

 "thread x terminated abnormally: can't use an undefined value as a hash reference at [program_name] line [line with alias]", <[file I'm opening]> [random line]

It must be something involving the order in which alias and threads get around to doing that voodoo they do so well, because sometimes it works fine other times it gives errors. Oh well, it's a cool module I think I'll find many uses for it and it makes it fast enough that multiprocessing isn't really necessary.

In reply to Re^2: Dereferencing Performance - Confused by Results by jmmitc06
in thread Dereferencing Performance - Confused by Results by jmmitc06

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