If we have a huge array and a hash with same values. And we search for a particular value, which is going to take more time and WHY? Can anyone tell me, how these work inside? Or in other words, why are hashes stored randomly?? 
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
#array.pl
my @array;
for (1..10000)
{
  my $x=$_;
  $x="a".$x;
  push (@array, $x);
}
foreach (@array)
{
print "$array[$_]=>$_", "\n";
}

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#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
#hash.pl
my %hash;
for (1..10000)
{
  my $x=$_;

  $x="a".$x;
  $hash{$_}=$x;
}
foreach (keys %hash)
{
print "$hash{$_}=>$_", "\n";
}

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[sid@nucleix scope]$ time perl hash.pl > A

real    0m0.103s
user    0m0.097s
sys     0m0.006s
[sid@nucleix scope]$ time perl array.pl > B

real    0m0.091s
user    0m0.086s
sys     0m0.005s

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In reply to datastructure of array and hash? by cool

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