A large part of Imager appears to have been implemented in C.

The larger part of Imager is indeed implemented in C. So is most of PDL. Have you read the first paragraph in my post?

Yes, much is coded in C, but they're still Perl modules. Data::Dumper is coded partly in C - does that bother you at all?

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