Hi All. Currently I am not working, but took a three month break from work to learn Japanese. And to make sure I won't get bored, I took a small gig from company called Plixer, to extend unpack. Apparently they do a lot of binary unpacking in their system, and speed is very important. (which is why they can't use Data::ParseBinary - it is 500 times slower then unpack) But they need sophisticated operations that unpack does not supply - like odd-length integer, (3, 6 and 7 bytes integer) and conditional integer. (one byte if smaller then 256, otherwise 255 + two bytes)
So the job was really to rip out unpack from Perl core, stuff it into XS module, and add their changes. Quite interesting. Shmuel. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
