Wed Dec 14 15:57:57 2016dwheeler [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject:
Feature Request: Add Compression Level Option
Date:
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:57:45 -0800
To:
bug-PerlIO-gzip [...] rt.cpan.org
From:
"David E. Wheeler" <dwheeler [...] cpan.org>
Today, PerlIO::gzip just uses the default gzip compression level when writing new files, which IIRC is 3. It’d be super handy if a layer option was added to set the compression level. Something like:
open my $fh, '>:gzip(level=9)', 'file.gz' or die $!;
Thanks,
David
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