Thanks all for the various workarounds. The ones I understand I will try. The others I'll study :-)
My test results were as follows (this is with 300,000 entries - closer to what my current problem is hitting): chicken: ~16 secs (when it didn't crash) stk: ~17 secs ruby: ~1.3 secs perl: ~0.7 secs By the by the tactic of loading lots of data into a hierarchy of hash arrays and then extracting the needed pieces in a myriad of ways, sometimes on the fly in a meeting with management nervously looking on :-) has been tremendously useful for me. I for one am hoping that there are faster hash tables in the future of chicken. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
