Well, nothing beats a good TIAS with Devel::Size in the mix:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @printables = map chr, 33 .. 126;
# random string 30 characters long
sub randstr { join '', map { $printables[rand(@printables)] } 1..30 }
use Devel::Size qw(size total_size);
sub commas {
my $str = ''.reverse shift;
return scalar reverse join ',', grep length, split /(.{3})/, $str
}
my %hash = ( randstr => randstr );
for (0..5) {
my $count = scalar keys %hash;
print commas($count), " elements: ", commas(total_size\%hash), " b
+ytes\n";
for (1..9 * $count) {
my $s = randstr;
$hash{$s} = randstr;
}
}
my $count = scalar keys %hash;
print commas($count), " elements: ", commas(total_size\%hash), " bytes
+\n";
These are the results it printed out on my machine, for v5.8.4:
1 elements: 176 bytes
10 elements: 1,171 bytes
100 elements: 11,249 bytes
1,000 elements: 111,133 bytes
10,000 elements: 1,135,573 bytes
100,000 elements: 11,224,325 bytes
1,000,000 elements: 111,194,341 bytes
(That last one took several minutes to complete on my system...)
Taking my last result and multiplying by five, it seems that 5 million {acc, build} pairs will take only slightly more than half a gig of RAM to store all those hash entries.
So, if your machine has 2GB of RAM -- you should be good to go.
--Stevie-O
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