On 6/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ted Fiedler</b> <<a href="mailto:fiedlert@gmail.com">fiedlert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="q"></span><div>Ive been chewing on it for a year. Another thing I sometimes do depending on the size of the hash is to do md5 summing of the structure.
<br><br>get an md5 of the whole hash if thats different, get an md5 of each row ( by key ) if its the same move on, if the row md5 is different then I will actually compare the data. doing the check sums of the whole row is faster than comparing each value - mileage varies.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>That's a really freakin' cool idea!<br><br>I'm going to have to look for an application of that idea! <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div>Ive seen some things that Ric has posted regarding Perl 5.10 that may make my life easier ie switch statement and given that Im pretty eager to try.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I didn't know about the "hash as a dispatch table" trick. I'm looking forward to using that one.<br><br>You know, I think we need to do some more technical stuff in this group. The monthly dinners are good and all that, but anyone who's Internet-savvy could fit in. We need to do some more hard-core Perl stuff.
<br><br>Why did we stop having meetings at the university?<br><br>--<br><br>faber<br><br><br> <br></div></div><br><br>