> Thanks for the info. It's interesting to know. What I still don't get, > however, is the fact that the same statement does not waste memory on > the x86 Linux Perl 5.8.5, but does on the x86 Cygwin Perl 5.8.7 and the > x86_64 Linux 5.8.8. So it has been introduced only in later versions? > And why is it defended? It doesn't seem to make sense, rather on the > contrary.
This question is slightly offtopic, but I am interested in tracking how much memory my perl scripts use, can someone tell me how i could do that? i tried: $strace script.pl strace: error creating process script.pl, (error 193) thanks, -- -Andrew Louie -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
