# from Adam Kennedy
# on Thursday 15 April 2010 17:03:
>> As for zip, bz2, 7zip and such files... they're all bags of bytes
>> last I checked.
>
>The limitation would be to reduce the surface area of the "standard"
>and thus reduce the number of dependencies and level of complexity
>imposed on cpan client implementations.
If you want the standard to ever evolve, the client must check the file
header (and most decompression tools will anyway) so that it can know
when it gets a file it can't handle.
--Eric
--
So malloc calls a timeout and starts rummaging around the free chain,
sorting things out, and merging adjacent small free blocks into larger
blocks. This takes 3 1/2 days.
--Joel Spolsky
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