On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:59:21PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > Obviously, If I could precook the array into > a hash, I'd think it would be faster... but > the "cooking part", I think, is the high > overhead part.
Redesign the entire script so that you use the associative array (hash) from the beginning instead of, or in addition to, storing your information in a "list" (indexed array).