man Mail::Box::FastScalar () - fast alternative to IO::Scalar

NAME

Mail::Box::FastScalar - fast alternative to IO::Scalar

DESCRIPTION

Contributed by Todd Richmond (richmond@proofpoint.com) This package should be released as separate package, but till then is incorporated in the Mail::Box module.

Extremely fast IO::Scalar replacement - >20x improvement in getline(s)()

Warnings

You cannot modify the original reference between calls unless you CW$obj-seek(1, 0)> to reset the object - VERY rare usage case

$/ must be undef or string - "" and \scalar unimplemented

REFERENCES

See the MailBox website at <http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/> for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

Distribution version 2.063. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.