On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:41:28AM -0600, Tomasi, wrote:
> I'm trying to maintain a cache of hashes to reduce database hits. What I
> want is to determine if I've retrieved the data from the DB before, if so,
> just pass back the copy of information used last time, otherwise read it
> from the DB and make a note of it. It would seem I'm not copying the
> information in to the $user arg properly. Something like this:
>
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There is the Memoize module that caches the results of a function....
sub somefunc {
# hit db
return $results;
}
use Memoize;
memoize('somefunc');
IIRC it then seemlessly caches in the background, for DB stuff also
checkout the expiring caches, in case values change in the DB.
Documentation here:
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/perl/Memoize.html
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