[JaxPM] computing values vs. storing as hash

[Nate Campi]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er Nate Campi <nate at campin.net> wrote -

I'm playing with a syslog relaying perl script I threw together while
debugging some third party software at work. I'm actually going to make
it compliant with RFC 3164 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt) as a
programming exercise.

The pattern matching and substition stuff is all going quite quickly, but
I was wondering (more academically than anything else), whether I should
store the mapping of priority values to facility/severity strings as
hash or compute them on the fly.

I tend to think I should build up a big hash with all the mappings
pre-computed for speed. Do people stick to that as a rule (where
possible), or what?

OBTW, I just ditched procmail and went to Mail::Audit for mail filtering 
and delivery. Man it's nice.

 http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2001/07/17/mailfiltering.html)
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