Mail::Box::FastScalar (3)

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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 "$obj-"seek(1, 0)> to reset the object - rare usage case

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

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.120, built on September 21, 2016. Website: perl.overmeer.net/mailbox

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2016 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html