Mail::Box::FastScalar(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation 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 - VERY rare usage case $/ must be undef or string - "" and \scalar unimplemented SEE ALSO This module is part of Mail-Message distribution version 3.015, built on December 11, 2023. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/ LICENSE Copyrights 2001-2023 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 http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ perl v5.38.1 2024-01-06 Mail::Box::FastScalar(3)