On 28.Dec.2004 01:14AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:

> If you are concerned about the performance impact of long
> keys, and your application fits a "write-once, read-many"
> model, then you could always hash the hash keys. Say generate
> an MD5 digest of the key string, and then use the digest as
> the hash key.

This might make a nice Tie:: module, if there already isn't
one. But then again, tie itself is allegedly slow...

-- 
Ian Langworth
Project Guerrilla
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
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