Re: [Boston.pm] Max hash key length

2004-12-28 Thread Ian Langworth
On 28.Dec.2004 01:14AM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: If you are concerned about the performance impact of long keys, and your application fits a write-once, read-many model, then you could always hash the hash keys. Say generate an MD5 digest of the key string, and then use the digest as the hash

Re: [Boston.pm] When will the Jan meeting be?

2004-12-28 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:01:28 -0500, Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 11:35:45PM -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: As I said before, I'll be in Boston for part of January. January 19 would be particularly convenient for me to meet with Boston.pm people. If it is