Problem with the links in the site: http://www.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl/
or http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/ Gets me to the error page about "non-existing page". Wahts the problem? In the meantime how to subscribe to Israel.pm mailing list? Tnx, Kfir On 10/07/07, Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Amos, > there is a mailing list and active group of perl users in Israel. It > called israel.pm. > Here is a link to our site and mailing list. > http://www.perl.org.il/mailing_lists.html > People there will most definitely will help you with this question. > Regards, > Kfir Lavi > > On 7/10/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Which DBM file is recommended to be used with Perl5 "tie"? > > > > Context: I intend to write a database statistics script which will go > > through a largish database and count instances per-day or per-hour. For > > instance one count will be "number of people who sent a message in each day > > of the year". > > > > In order to keep track of each submitter (e.g. if Joe Shmoe sent two > > messages on July 4th I want to count him once) I plan to use a simple hash > > array of "data,username". > > > > Since it could become a very large hash (total of 140k individuals, times > > number of days in the last couple of years makes it over 100 million > > potential records), I think that tie'ing it to a DBM file will help > > alleviate the memory requirements. > > > > Question is - which DBM file would be recommended? I suppose I should look > > for speed. Berkeley DB is almost the default but my experience with it (not > > through perl tie, but direct programming in C++) was that it's not 100% > > reliable (it's very fragile), and there is GDBM, and GNU are known to do > > some cool stuff. > > > > The file might be transient (once the count is over I'll keep it in a > > PostgresQL 8.1 database), but maybe I'll keep it around for the updates. > > > > Any thoughts? Personal war stories? > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Amos > > > > > _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
