in reply to Reading entire file into scalar: speed differences?

Assuming it works on your OS and for your particular file, the following code will be faster than either of your options above: 
sysread SITE, my $xml, -s SITE;

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-Blake

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Re: Re: Reading entire file into scalar: speed differences?
by japhy (Canon) on Jan 25, 2002 at 05:57 UTC
    I'm credited for that idiom in "Perl for System Administration". :)

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