Re: [MacPerl] Got it...

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 16.50 12/15/97, Jon Stevens wrote:
>>Compiling a DBM is even slower than going line-by-line through a text file.
>
>Just curious....How could a binary hash table be slower than going
>line-by-line for each and every line?

It can take a long time to CREATE the DBM file.  Accessing it is very very fast.

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