Simple. It isn't more complicated. ;) You gain an easier way to read an MD5 file. The idea that you can decode the file in the open statment is quite nice, because now you can pass that file handle to anything expecting a file handle without those functions needing to worry that it is encrypted. This can be significant, or it can be meaningless. It realy depeneds on your need, if you have a need to gzip or md5 a file that you then want to be able to open and just use the file handle as normal, this is very usefull. If your code is going to look ilke your benchmark then it is 50/50 ;) Thats what makes perl fun, choices.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re^3: PerlIO slower than traditional IO? by eric256
in thread PerlIO slower than traditional IO? by saintmike

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