Hi Lisa,
As it looks you are doing translations, have you considered using something
like Locale::Maketext ? Your substitution texts would then be in a
particular Perl package. Not sure about the speed of mapping, but the
package is very mature, so my guess is that it will be a small hit.
--pascal
On 8/7/07, Lisa Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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