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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans < leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > Personally I'd be in favour of prototyping a brand new pack-alike thing > on CPAN, to fix these and some other issues.[*] > > pack/unpack don't do anything truely "interesting" in core that > couldn't be done with regular XS code; their presence in the core > binary is purely a convenience. A CPAN prototyped replacement could > easily be possible. > > * Such issues as lack of stream-reading unpack, Google-style varints, > terrible behaviour on buffer under-runs, ... > Stream reading would be terribly useful, but the buffer underrun behavior that makes scream with despair to the point where I consider adding something for it (despite knowing what unpack looks like on the inside). LeonThread Previous | Thread Next