Hi all -
I don't know if this is the right list for this email, but it seemed like the most relevant one. Currently, we're using perl-5.6.1 and are having problems with memory leaks - thanks to reference counting.
FWIW, you might want to try weak references. They often help in these circumstances.
I'm just curious how stable parrot's GC engine is, and how much effort it'd take to incorporate into perl-5. I'm assuming we'd need to play around with the code in sv.c, etc.., and it'd take some dedication to have it working. Would it even make sense to try this out? If it's not so hard, I'd just want to give it a shot to see how much it helps with these leaks.
What do you think?
I think you'll find it's a pretty impressive amount of work, not to mention the fun you'd have trying to guarantee perl 5's timely destruction semantics. (Which is doable, certainly, but an interesting challenge)
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