On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:03:51AM -0700, Lyle Kopnicky wrote: > I'm using Data::Dump in a project to periodically write a snapshot of a > hash table to disk, so it can be recovered on failure. Unfortunately, it > can take 40 seconds to write out a 10,000-entry hash table (each entry > is itself a small hash table, one entry of which is itself a small hash > table). By writing it to a string first and then to a file, I found that > the vast majority of that time is in creating the string, and only 5 > seconds is in writing the file (using print). > > If I iterate through the table, writing each entry separately to the > file, I get a fair improvement. I guess this means that internally, > Data::Dump is using a lot of inefficient string appends. > > Nevertheless, I need to get this operation down to 5 seconds, preferably > 1 second if possible. Are there modules faster than Data::Dump? What > about MLDBM?
I think Storable would be the normal thing to use. TomP -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schrodinger, Inc. 646-366-9555 x102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
