Re: Large Set Efficiency Question

[BorgCopyeditor]

Just a guess here, not a tip exactly: while you're iterating over @found, would it be faster only to split when the timestamp doesn't match? I.e.:

foreach $f(@found) {
    if ($max !~ /$f/) {
        ($id)=split(/\|/,$f);
        push @set, $id;
    }
}

BCE
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