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in reply to Fast - Compact That String
My environment is perl 5.8.8 with no compiler so I am limited to pure perl modules only.
You could, however, compile a (C/C++/asm/whatever) binary on a machine with a compiler and copy that binary across?
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Re^2: Fast - Compact That String
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Feb 13, 2012 at 14:55 UTC
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zebedee,
Actually no - even that has problems. First, you need to be able to introduce a compiler. Of course this doesn't need to be the production environment but there is still a change control process that must be adhered to. The next problem you will face is that compiling C extensions for Perl using a compiler other than the one that compiled Perl usually doesn't work. This means either recompiling Perl or creating a stand alone executable and using system calls. These both have the same problems. Keep in mind that I fully recognize that these hurdles are not technical and are quite silly but one has to choose what they want to spend their time doing.
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Come now, your criteria were:
"I need to very quickly compress these strings into the smallest space possible and also be able to expand them back again later as quickly as possible."
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"My environment ... no compiler"
No mention of change control or process there - you wanted raw speed and little space used and you couldn't compile on the production machine.
But I can imagine the approach I was thinking of - spawning an external process - (and the communication with that process) would negate any speed advantages and I'm too lazy to prove it one way or another so I'll shut up and go away!
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