Re: [MacPerl] Associative array memory hogging

[Yanni <jon@aggroup.com>]

> Of course, this is all Extremely Rapid Application Development--I
> was originally trying to save time by writing it.  Is there any way to
> do fast (keyed) searches in memory, or to compact the array in
> memory?  And is there any way to store the array to disk, so that to
> load it into memory I do not have to reprocess the file every time?

Would it be possible to use a DBM database to store the info and then
just do the lookups from there?

-jon

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