Chapter 6

Improving Performance with Tie and DBM

Chapter Overview

Joe would like to test the access speed of flat-files versus binary databases on his system.

Chapter Objectives

• Simplify data storage and access using *dbm files
• Profile performance using Benchmark

Documentation

• perltie
• Benchmark documentation

Teaching Points

• overview of the DBM libraries
• using tie for DBM access
• using Benchmark to profile performance

Lab: Benchmarking Data Retrieval Performance

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