in reply to Re^3: Reducing application footprint: large text files
in thread Reducing application footprint: large text files

You can use Filter::gunzip to use a compressed module.

Just compress the module using gzip and then prepend the header telling perl to use the filter: 

gzip -9 Module.pm
echo "use Filter::gunzip;" >Module.pm
cat Module.pm.gz >>Module.pm

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