Perrin Harkins wrote:
>
> > Can I ask why you are not useing IPC::Sharedlight (as its pure C and
> > apparently much faster than IPC::Shareable - I've never benchmarked it
> > as I've also used IPC::Sharedlight).
>
> Full circle back to the original topic...
> IPC::MM is implemented in C and offers an actual hash interface backed by a
> BTree in shared memory. IPC::ShareLite only works for individual scalars.
>
Not tried that one !
I'ce used the obvious Sharedlight plus Storable to serialise hashes.
> It wouldn't surprise me if a file system approach was faster than either of
> these on Linux, because of the agressive caching.
I would be an interesting benchmark ... Althought it may only be a
performance win on a lightly loaded machine,the assymption being that
the stat'ing is fast on a lowly loaded system with fast understressed
disks. I could be completly wrong here tho ;-).
Has anyone used the file system approach on a RAM disk ?
Greg
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> - Perrin
