I wanted to know if there are any limitations to the max key length used
for hashes in Perl. Also, what are the performance implications, if any,
of using long keys? I have an application that needs key lengths in the
range of ~1000, but with relatively limited numbers of keys (few to low
tens of
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:36:38 -0800, Palit, Nilanjan
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I wanted to know if there are any limitations to the max key length used
for hashes in Perl. Also, what are the performance implications, if any,
of using long keys? I have an application that needs key lengths in the
Palit, Nilanjan wrote:
I have an application that needs key lengths in the
range of ~1000, but with relatively limited numbers of keys (few to low
tens of thousands).
If you are concerned about the performance impact of long keys, and your
application fits a write-once, read-many model, then you
