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150 GB? Ouch.

AnyEvent::HTTP should allow you to issue an HTTP request, and process it a chunk at a time, while it arrives, without having to save it anywhere.

And XML::Twig can parse XML chunk by chunk.

Pairing the two you ought to be able to do this without temporary files. Exactly how to do it, I can't help you. I have limited experience with AnyEvent::HTTP; and virtually none with XML::Twig.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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