What I gather from your question is that you want to make the result of: 
my $image = GD::Image->newFromPngData($data, 1);

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be available automagically when the script starts.

There are several ways to do that:

I haven't tried it myself, but I fear that you'll not be able to freeze the GD::Image object (because it is most likely a complex object, not a simple hash ref), so you would have to freeze $data. But that's just the contents of the file, so that doesn't make much sense.

You can however speed up the reading of the original PNG file: 

open (my $in_fh, $infile) or die;
local $/; # enable slurping mode
my $data = <$in_fh>;
close $in_fh;

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Hope this helps.

Liz

In reply to Re: CGI script bringing its own data by liz
in thread CGI script bringing its own data by hacmac

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