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Tie-Hash-Indexed

Ordered hashes for Perl

Description

Tie::Hash::Indexed is intentionally very similar to other ordered hash modules, most prominently Hash::Ordered. However, Tie::Hash::Indexed is written completely in XS and is, often significantly, faster than other modules. For a lot of operations, it's more than twice as fast as Hash::Ordered, especially when using the object-oriented interface instead of the tied interface. Other modules, for example Tie::IxHash, are even slower.

The object-oriented interface of Tie::Hash::Indexed is almost identical to that of Hash::Ordered, so in most cases you should be able to easily replace one with the other.

Installation

Installation of the Tie::Hash::Indexed module follows the standard Perl Way and should not be harder than:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Note that you may need to become superuser to make install.

If you're building the module under Windows, you may need to use a different make program, such as nmake, instead of make.

Features

You can enable or disable certain features at compile time by adding options to the Makefile.PL call. However, you can safely leave them at their default.

Currently, the only available feature is debug to build the module with debugging support. If your perl binary was already built with debugging support, the debug feature is enabled by default.

You can enable or disable features explicitly by adding the arguments

enable-feature
disable-feature

to the Makefile.PL call. To explicitly build the module with debugging enabled, you would say:

perl Makefile.PL enable-debug

This will still allow you to pass other standard arguments to Makefile.PL, like

perl Makefile.PL enable-debug OPTIMIZE=-O3

Copyright

Copyright (c) Marcus Holland-Moritz. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.