On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 08:23, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > Message du 01/12/08 11:38
>> De : "howa"
>> A : beginners@perl.org
>> Copie à :
>> Objet : How to make two perl work together?
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have one perl (5.10) installed by my Ubuntu 8.10, as this version of
>> Perl has
>> memory leak issue with regex, so I compile another one into /opt/
>> perl5.8.9.
>>
>
>
> Oh really? I have used perl 5.10 for quite a while, didn't meet this problem.

It looks like there is an issue in the compilation of regexes that leaks memory:

perl -le 'qr// while 1'

There does seem to be a fix*.

* http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/232045

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Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
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