The timing comes out to 10 minutes for the insertion and 9.6 minutes for iteration of the million keys.
use Tie::SubstrHash;
tie %hash, 'Tie::SubstrHash', 7, 1, 1_000_000;
print time;
$hash{ pack 'A7', $_ } = ' ' for 1 .. 1_000_000;
print time;
1069489311
1069489911
$n = 0;
print time;
$n += defined $hash{ pack 'A7', $_ } for 1 .. 1_000_000; print time, $
+/, $n;
1069490448
1069491023
1000000
I think that it may be possible to improve this a little by updating the module. It uses local several places where my would probably be quicker. Though, I suspect that the main performance hit is the cost of tie rather than the implementation. Part of my reasoning for liking the mechanism I described was that it was simple enough in it's implementation that it could be coded directly avoiding the need for tie.
I also think that it would be possible to improve the user interface by having the module perform any padding required rather than the caller,
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
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