Tie::StdHash - does it store on disc?

[Jaap Karssenberg]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:00:41 +0200 bdj wrote:
: The question isn't what is $whatis (it will be 'yes'), but
: will my %hashThatBecomesVeryBig really be stored directly on disc and
: not in memory/ram???

Nope. The Tie::StdHash documentation doesn't promised anything like
this, will just be in RAM. Although you can overload Tie::StdHash to
make it do this relatively easy.

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[bdj]

Hi!
I have an big object (hash with values, that could be scalars or references)
that takes a lot of ram.
Perl isn't so glad about using more than ca. 1 Gb ram even when there is
enough virtual memory.
So i wan't to keep usage of virtual memory so low as possible.
Therefore the idea using a other type of virtual memory with tied hashes or
DB_File or whatever works...

Greetings
Bjørn

"Barry King" <wyrd@nospam.wyrdwright.com> wrote in message
news:vlpeagtcqi0udd@corp.supernews.com...

>
>
> Can you be more specific on what you are trying to do? It sounds like
> you could use a combination of Data::Dumper (to generate hash-values
> that can be eval-ed to produce referenced data structures) and DB_File.
>
> BK
>
> bdj wrote:

> >>Nope. The Tie::StdHash documentation doesn't promised anything like
> >>this, will just be in RAM. Although you can overload Tie::StdHash to
> >>make it do this relatively easy.

> >
> > But how???
> >
> > Should i make use of
> > use DB_File 'MyFileName4verybigHash.dat';
> >
> > But then i can't use references in the hash-values
> > - or is there a way to do that?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Bjørn
> >
> >

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