Perrin Harkins wrote:
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 11:17 -0800, Bill Whillers wrote:
Am I more or less efficient than just creating the hashes directly from
hitting the database everytime the application needs it? The database is
*not* under heavy load, at all.
If the data is small enough, loading it i
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 11:17 -0800, Bill Whillers wrote:
> Am I more or less efficient than just creating the hashes directly from
> hitting the database everytime the application needs it? The database is
> *not* under heavy load, at all.
If the data is small enough, loading it into memory shoul
I recently ported a set of old CGI applications for mod_perl. Each script
loads a few hashes from flat files (using "open") filled with plain rows of
delimited data that rarely changes (~50k each). The hashes are built by
iterating thru each file, row by row, assigning values to keys.
All the f
