RE: [MacPerl] Got it...

[Tim Endres <time@ice.com>]

I believe that it is the nature of the file based DBM database.
If I remember correctly, the algorithm for this causes HUGE
files to be created (which are optimized out under UNIX by
leveraging file "holes"), which is lots of IO, which slows stuff
down.

tim.

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From: 	Jon Stevens
Subject: 	Re: [MacPerl] Got it...

"Chris Nandor" <pudge@pobox.com> said the following at 12/15/97 1:37 PM:

>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?

-jon


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