Hi All,
I'm developing a Mason web application that needs to perform a large amount
of variable substitution. (e.g. 'hello' -> 'bonjour', 'bye' -> 'au revoir',
etc...) There are about 3,000 key/value pairs associated like this. About
25% of all components perform a good amount (50+) of these types of
substitutions, so the replacements need to happen quickly.
Since it seems unwise to use a database to perform so many operations so
frequently, I'm leaning towards using a predefined hash. e.g.:
my %translate = ('hello' => 'bonjour', 'bye' => 'au revoir', ..... 3,000
more key/value pairs ...);
$var = $translate{$var};
What would be the advisable method of defining such a hash in a Mason
environment? Currently I'm considering:
1. loading a global %translate in handler.pl, making it available to all
components
2. defining %translate in the <%once> section of components that perform
substitution
3. storing %translate in a mason cache, and retrieving it in components that
perform substitution
The global hash defined in the handler.pl would make my life easiest, but
I'm concerned that I don't fully understand the implications (if any) of
defining such a large global data structure in this way.
I'm definitely open to any other suggestions as well. Thanks in advance!
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