[Nottingham] A quick bash updating table lookup

[Richard Hodgson]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 21:23, Camilo Mesias <camilo at mesias.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Even if you have an external program to do the b-tree heavy lifting,
> its performance will likely be crippled if it has to start up,
> navigate the tree and interact with it. It will also be better to use
> a scripting language that has extensions for md5 (for example) rather
> than run up a new subprocess for every md5sum.
>
>
Which, it should be noted, Perl has an entire module dedicated to that has
worked rather well for me in the past:

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Digest-MD5-2.51/MD5.pm


> -Cam
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