# This way of dealing with meg and gig is a poor way, used only for demonstration. # Supersearch for a better way. my $KB = 1024; my $MB = 1024 * $KB; my $GB = 1024 * $MB; my %Classes = ( $MB => 'BitStream::Vec', $GB => 'BitStream::Buffered', ); my $filesize = -s $filename; my $classname = 'BitStream::InMemory'; foreach my $min_size (sort { $a <=> $b } keys %Classes) { last unless $filesize >= $min_size; $classname = $classes{$min_size}; } my $stream = $classname->new($filename);