At 2:42 PM -0800 12/12/02, Dave Whipp wrote:
No, that's not a problem, since neither $a nor $b can possibly go anywhere, as they're both being referenced. The GC is aggressive, but we do wait until a variable is at least dead before reaping it."Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:a05200f00ba1ebb73c6d2@[63.120.19.221]...There'll definitely be memory address reuse. If .id returns the current object's memory address, it shouldn't be cached any place, as otherwise you'll find things going bang with some regularity.In a multi-threaded environment, even a simple$a.id == $b.id may have significant time between the two lookups.
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