Re^2: What's the best way to compress a scalar?

Zlib will be in perl' s CORE with the next stable release:

C:\>corelist -a Compress::Zlib

Compress::Zlib  was first released with perl 5.009003
  5.009003   2.000_07
  5.009004   2.000_13
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Also ActiveState is bundling it with ActivePerl for years and I think that it is and will be better supported than any other Compres::* module :)

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