"olink">hsearch</a> interfaces.  After including a new header file and recompiling, programs will run orders of magnitude faster, and underlying databases can grow as large as necessary.  Also, historic <a href="../api_reference/C/dbm.html" class="olink">dbm</a> applications can fail once some number of entries are inserted into the database, in which the number depends on the effectiveness of the internal hashing function on the particular data set.  This is not a problem with Berkeley DB.</p>
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