Possibly naive question, but inquiring minds wanna know

my $x = 400;
my $y = 200;
my $n =  20;

my @dat = (1234, 123, 1, 0, 245, 5, 546, 10);

store_pdl();
store_bin();

sub store_pdl {
    my $row = ones($x)->dummy * pdl(@dm);
    my $img = ones($y)->dummy->dummy * $row;
    my $hdr = writefraw($img, 'pdl.dat');
}

sub store_bin {
    open BIN, '>:raw', 'bin.dat';
    for ( 0 .. $y ) {
        for ( 0 .. $x ) {
            printf BIN "%s", pack 's8', @dat;
        }
    };
    close BIN;
}

-rw-r--r--   1 punkish  punkish    1289616 Jun 22 14:42 bin.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 punkish  punkish    5120000 Jun 22 14:42 pdl.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 punkish  punkish         14 Jun 22 14:42 pdl.dat.hdr

the piddle is approx. 4 times the size of the packed file. I was
expecting it to be bigger, but not 4 times bigger. Is there a way
around this?

-- 
Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org
Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org
Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org
Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor
Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
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