At 14.49 12/15/97, Jon Stevens wrote: > since memory is a concern, one thing you could do is dump directly to a > dbm database...(which is essentially a disk based associative array)... Compiling a DBM is even slower than going line-by-line through a text file. I think DB_File, which is all you have with MacPerl really (NDBM_File is a interface to the same DB routines DB_File has) is even slower than most in compiling (but the fastest in reading). -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ %PGPKey=('B76E72AD',[1024,'0824 090B CE73 CA10 1FF7 7F13 8180 B6B6']) #== MacPerl: Power and Ease ==# #== Publishing Date: Early 1998. http://www.ptf.com/macperl/ ==# ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch