From: Yohanes Santoso <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-07-24T04:35:48+09:00
Subject: Re: bdb and $=

Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk> writes:

> Now, I can wrap the Hash, but I have to point out that the lack of $=
> sucks. My has_key? implementation will have to iterate over every key in
> the Hash, and compare using tolower. This is slow as poop, plus a lot of

AFAIK, BDB is case-sensitive. This means, lower-case handling has to
be done by yourself by either the method you described above or by
normalising (lower-casing) the keys on storing. The original key can
be stored as another field on the record so upon retrieval, the
original key can be extracted. You may compress the original key first
to save some space.

YS.