"John W. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to really know how effective a hash algorithm is, it is > necessary to have statistics on chain lengths. I don't believe Perl > gives you that
If you dump a hash using the Deve::Peek module it will tell you how long the chain lengths are. For example: $ perl -MDevel::Peek -e '%a = (1..20); Dump \%a' 2>&1 | grep ARRAY ARRAY = 0x814f720 (0:7, 1:8, 2:1) This hash ended up with 7 empty slots, 8 with 1 element and 1 with 2 elements. Regards, Gisle Aas, ActiveState _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
