> > > What is "(painfully slow) rewrite"? > > > > I think Paul means that it is taking him a long time to > write the code, > > not that the code itself is slow. > > Correct. Looks like I answered the wrong question :-)
Indeed I understood incorrectly first time, but you shed quite many light on other important aspects of Compress::Zlib (which is in now the Perl core, as everyone already know :) Thanks!