One of my roles in a Tools Development group at Boeing is to help
maintain existing Perl programs and to champion the use of Perl in
future development.
One of the developers here has the impression /opinion that Perl Hashes
are slow. That was because of the poor performance of the GUI menu of a
particular Perl tool, but I believe the poor performance is due to other
factors. May be able to prove that later.
I have browsed through my extensive collection of O'Reilly Perl books,
and websites, but can't seem to find anything to support my contention
that hashes are very efficient, almost as much as arrays, and shouldn't
be avoided.
Am I right? Can anyone point me to supporting material?
(I couldn't find any perl-performance related mailing list)
I hope to include that in a Perl class I will be teaching to my group
early next year.
Thank you,
Wayne Haufler
Senior Software Engineer (SE)
In Space Shuttle Program (SSP)
Backup Flight System (BFS) Tools Group
Boeing, NASA Systems, Houston
E-mail: wayne.a.haufler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Perl,Unix,C,C++,SQL,QNX,X-Windows =20
(Disclaimer: The comments and opinions expressed are my own and do not
represent the view of Boeing, United Space Alliance, JSC, or NASA.)
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