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.