Re^3: performance of counting keys in a big hash

[hdb]

I think I will have to carry you around the swamps of some unknown planet for much longer before I will ready to dive into Perl's source itself to answer questions in this community...

[demerphq]

:-)

Seriously tho, its not as hard as people think. In fact a lot of the time its easy. All of the code for perl's hash implementation lives in three files, hv.h, hv_func.h, hv.c.

hv_func.h is the home of the new hash functions if you want to look at the options.