Re: Huge hash ... running out of memory without warning???

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Paul wrote:

> dbm's are *wonderful* for some data, but not for dynamically accessing
> complex data structures. This only stores the top level, which *points*
> to actual data further down the chain at the time of the program run. :o/

Right.  In a later message, I suggested he use MLDBM, which is better at
handling more complex data structures.

-- Brett
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