Mail::Box::FastScalar(3p)

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-Box distribution version 2.118, built on February 26, 2015. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2015 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://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html