On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Joshua Chamas wrote:
> I know the tie/untie MLDBM::Sync strategy with DB_File is
> slow, but what size data are you caching?
I'm not. Well, actually I am, but I use BerkeleyDB which handles its
own locking. I just noticed this in the Guide and figured that either it
was out of date or I missed something interesting.
> It may be that you can use MLDBM::Sync with SDBM_File, with records <
> 100 bytes would be good, or MLDBM::Sync with MLDBM::Sync::SDBM_File
> which faster through around 5000-10000 byte records with
> Compress::Zlib installed. Generally, the tie/untie with a SDBM_File
> is pretty fast.
I'll update the Guide to mention your module in the dbm section.
- Perrin
