CONTENTS 1. DESCRIPTION 2. INSTALLATION 3. FEATURES 4. COPYRIGHT -------------- 1. 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. --------------- 2. 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'. ----------- 3. 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 ------------ 4. 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.