Wiggins d'Anconia: > the memory will still be available to the same process, > so it will not be available to other programs for instance until the > program has ended.
And even that is not entirely true, because the memory manager of your OS can decide to swap stale stuff from precious RAM to disk, making "the memory" available for the same process or for other programs. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
