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Monday, July 26, 2004

I'm at work, and probably shouldn't be blogging, but I have to post this. I was just looking for the MLDBM perl module, that I need for the Content Management System I'm working on. Next to it I noticed a new version of the module called MLDBM::Easy. Check out the description from its manpage. Note the use of the terms "old and busted" and "new hotness". If no one else, Benjamin will like this. I never imagined I'd see those terms applied to nested data structures.

This module allows you to work with multi-dimensional databases, just like MLDBM, but it does work behind the scenes to allow you to treat the multi-dimensional database like a normal data structure. Basically, you don't need to use the piecemeal access that MLDBM required:

  # old and busted

  my $record = $db{some_key};

  $record->[2] += 100;

  $db{some_key} = $record;

  # new hotness

  $db{some_key}[2] += 100;

Of course, with this convenience comes a loss of speed. Deal with it.

After having found the module I realized that I already have the MLDBM module, as part of chorus-lib, which I am using.

posted by Jesse at 9:10 AM #