Fellow Monks,

I am on windows 2000, using activestate perl. I have the following piece of code. It simply grabs a load of text files from a directory and zips them up for archiving. It works well for a small number of text files, but I've got 3,500 plus text files, and it's taking anything up to an hour to complete. Any hints on how to speed this thing up? (The resulting zip file has to be compatible with winzip).
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS);

my $date = "text files";

my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();

opendir DIR, $date;
my @Filelist = grep { /.txt$/ } readdir DIR;
foreach my $file(@Filelist){
        my $member = $zip->addFile("$date\\$file");
        die 'Error writing file' if $zip->writeToFileNamed("$date.zip"
+) != AZ_OK;
        }
print "Finished\n"

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Thanks in advance,
Jonathan.

In reply to Archive::Zip performance question by Anonymous Monk

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