In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> Perl uses reference counting, so as long as a string is visibile > anywhere (remember closures), it stays around and disappears as soon as > it's unreferenced. > If you have large strings or arrays you don't need, maybe you need to > explicitly undef them. Using shift and pop on arrays doesn't copy the > element for example. Make sure you're using my on all your variables so > they are cleared on exiting a function. > Also, this doesn't work on circular references, so if you build > structures like that you'll need to explicitly break the chain. ... or use WeakRef. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
