I ran some quick time tests on the GC, and hashes are relatively expensive to GC, relative to other things. (They're an order of magnitude slower than perlstrings, and two orders of magitude slower than perlints) They're slow enough that I'd like to take a look at them to see if perhaps there's a way to have less GC overhead... -- Dan
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