On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:23:38AM -0800, Bill Ward wrote: > Personally I always use hashes for objects. Hashes are pretty fast in Perl, > especially when there aren't many keys, so I don't think the benefits of > using arrays are worth it. The risk of typos is pretty small, and the
Hash lookup should be O(1), independent of number of keys. Of course, a hash with more keys uses more memory, but so does an array with more elements. Nicholas Clark
