in reply to gzseek for perl filehandles

You'd be well to consider the performance impact of random seeks within a compressed file in the light of this from the zlib docs:

If file is open for reading, the implementation may still need to uncompress all of the data up to the new offset. As a result, gzseek() may be extremely slow in some circumstances.

Just how large is your file of words?

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Re^2: gzseek for perl filehandles
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 23, 2010 at 15:43 UTC
    That's what, 
          --rsyncable   Make rsync-friendly archive
    should solve. Although I am open to using a different compressor other than gzip if it has random access. I think .zip must support this for example, but I don't see a compressed filehandle library with random seek support in cpan.
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      File size is 1GB compressed: It's not words but phrases that I want to match against.
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      Googling site:zlib.net rsyncable turns up 0 hits?

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