Source: libtie-persistent-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Florian Schlichting Standards-Version: 4.1.5 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Tie-Persistent Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtie-persistent-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtie-persistent-perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libtie-persistent-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: tied interface to persistent file Tie::Persistent makes working with persistent data real easy by using the tie interface. It works by storing data contained in a variable into a file (not unlike a database). The primary advantage is speed, as the whole datastructure is kept in memory (which is also a limitation), and, of course, that you can use arbitrary data structures inside the variable (unlike DB_File). Note that it is most useful if the data structure fits into memory.