Re: Data structure question

[Perrin Harkins]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Drew Taylor wrote:
> I know about tied hashes - Thanks Damien for your excellent book! - but
> there is a performance penalty. How big is this penalty? Is it worth
> using tied hashes? Versus an array of hash refs?

They're a lot slower than normal data structures, or even normal object
methods.  Whether that slowness will be noticeable next to the slowness of
accessing a database is questionable.  There were a few benchmarks posted
to this list that you could dig out of the archive.

- Perrin