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After reading a recent post on this module, while not knowing the resolution it did make think perhaps I should be using this module.
My previous recent posts regarding manipulating hash elements surround a program I am writing that involves reading, editing and writing back out data in a simple XML file. I use Tk:Hlist, some entry widgets, some hashes, and some subroutines to do everything I want to do .. it is working well now.
However, I noticed when testing this onsite at my customer that when reading XML data files that are upwards of 10,000 elements or more -- this takes several minutes to read -- considering I am using XML::Simple to get the data into the hash.
Would using a module to Tie the hash directly to the XML file,or to a binary hash file (I have another program that creates the XML that is read in-- I could just create the binary hash file instead) make this process much faster? Is there any sort of benchmark to help me determine if it is worth re-writing my code to do this?
It would be slick to do this, however if it is not going to be faster by some order or scale factor --- it may not be worth my time right now.
Thanks for any input, advice, or experience shared...
John | 
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