Re: getting a Perl application to start as quick as possible

[biosysadmin]

in reply to getting a Perl application to start as quick as possible

You could try storing the data read from spreadsheets using Storable:

use Storable;

my %spreadsheet_data;

if ( -f $storage_file_name ) {
   %spreadsheet_data = %{ retrieve( $storage_file_name ) };
} else {
   # read in all of your data into %spreadsheet_data
   store \%spreadsheet_data, $storage_file_name;
}

Deriving what the $storage_file_name should be would be better left to someone who knows Windows better than I.

Cheers. :)