MySQL [Was: Things I do With Perl]

[Arthur Corliss]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Fred Steinberg wrote:

> Same with the thing I'm working on; just using DBM. I'm not dealing with
> large amounts of data, so it's fast enough, though one day I might add
> MySQL support. Don't really need a full relational db at this point, though.
> 
> Using DBM ties is so convenient, especially if you do something like
> 
>   use MLDBM qw(DB_File Storable);
> 
> which lets you just spit any arbitrary perl data struct out to disk (and, of
> course, get it back later).

You know, that, with the data dumper, are modules I've yet to use.  I probably
should start thinking about that, but it's hard to change the mindset.  Since
some of the stuff I do gets distributed, I try to keep the dependencies at a
minimum.  But, occasionally, laziness overcomes that. . .

What kind of overhead is entialed using it?  In terms of compile speed, memory
load, etc?

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