SPUG: Question for somebody

[Richard Anderson]

This in not correct - memory is freed by Perl's garbage collection algorithm
when a lexically scoped variable goes out of scope, unless there is a
pathological circular reference situation.

If Perl really did not return the memory to the OS until the program exited,
recursive subroutines would be impossible in Perl.

Richard.Anderson at rayCosoft.com       RayCosoft, Professional Services Group
Perl/SQL/Unix software engineering    www.rayCosoft.com
www.zipcon.net/~starfire/home              Seattle, WA, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Smith" <LaurenS at bsquare.com>
To: "'Owskey, Tom'" <tom.owskey at attws.com>; <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: SPUG: Question for somebody


> If you lexically scope variables using 'my', variables will delete
> themselves when their scope is up.  However, this does not mean that the
> memory is recoverable by the OS.  It means that Perl has released the
memory
> for its own future use.  Aside from memory leaks, a Perl process should
only
> take up as much space as its peak memory usage.
>
> Lauren
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Owskey, Tom [mailto:tom.owskey at attws.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:19 AM
> > To: spug-list at pm.org
> > Subject: SPUG: Question for somebody
> >
> >
> > Hi can anybody tell me how to destroy an object to keep the
> > program from
> > eating up memory.
> >
> > Thomas Owskey.
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