Tim, for a while now you've been saying that you will change
fetchrow_hashref so that its performance is close to or the
same as fetchrow_arrayref, but the perldocs still have this
disclaimer:
Because of the extra work fetchrow_hashref and Perl
have to perform, it is not as efficient as
fetchrow_arrayref or fetchrow_array.
Currently, a new hash reference is returned for each
row. This will change in the future to return the
same hash ref each time, so don't rely on the current
behaviour.
I believe the performance gain was to come by NOT creating a
new hash for each row, but by reusing the same hash. Has this
been done yet(is the documentation old), or is it on your
schedule to be done soon?
Thanks.
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Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
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