You know you might want to grab a copy of MySQL and store all the data in a set of tables using the DBI. The reason for this are simple:

  1. Databases have lots of functions you can use without having to code your own custom data structures. This saves lots of time.
  2. Most databases are optimized in ways you could never do in your life time even if you wrote your program in straight assembler. The reason for this is there are a lot of very smart people who spend their time figuring out how to make things quicker and working on databases. For instance, I couldn't code MySQL if I had an entire lifetime.
  3. Databases are very quick. I have a database with a hundred thousand records and I can get very specialized SELECTs done in a few hundreths of a second.
  4. Databases cache information for you. So if you perform the same calculation twice you don't need to worry about it.

In reply to Re: cpan Data structure by Vautrin
in thread cpan Data structure by michaelg

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