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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Slowness when inserting into pre-extended array

by Elian (Parson)
on Jul 20, 2003 at 11:18 UTC ( [id://276052]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Slowness when inserting into pre-extended array
in thread Slowness when inserting into pre-extended array

Hashes are OK for any number of keys until you run out of memory
That's not actually universally true--large numbers of hash keys trigger pathological behaviour on many versions of glibc. The bug's been fixed, but a lot of those systems are still out there because people are understandably loathe to update such a fundamental part of their system.
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