[VPM] spliting lines using unpack

[Peter Scott]

At 11:28 PM 12/26/2006, abez wrote:

>I don't want to be mean or anything but if you're using perl you shouldn't
>worry too much about performance.

But actually it is known that many Perl builtin functions are at least 
as fast as their C brethren because they are implemented in hand 
optimized C.  Let me know if you desire a citation, but I'm sure you 
can find what I'm talking about.  It's entirely likely that in this 
case the time required for either a split or an unpack will rival the 
best the poster can do by any other means.

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Peter Scott
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