[Bioperl-l] Comparing DB_FILE and SDBM

[Mike Muratet]

Greetings

I did a comparison myself of Bio::Index::GenBank between DB_FILE and SDBM
on the latest version of the files from the Genbank primate division using
a Compaq with 376K of memory and a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Xeon. I used the
environment variable to control the indexer. I got the latest release of
Berkeley from SleepyCat. 

Using DB_FILE

real    38m32.751s
user    6m36.070s
sys     1m16.650s

Using SDBM

real    46m13.856s
user    6m34.400s
sys     1m15.010s

A negligible difference. Has anyone tried to compare the libraries (or
knows where someone has?)

Thanks

Mike