[Pdx-pm] Recommendations for memory leak checking?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Tue Jul 3 17:26:05 PDT 2007


>>>>> "chromatic" == chromatic  <chromatic at wgz.org> writes:

chromatic> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:16:57 Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> Bit of a terminology problem here.  Kevin is talking about variables
>> that can't be garbage-collected until global cleanup due to circular
>> references and Perl's reference-counting GC scheme.  See "Two-Phased
>> Garbage Collection" in perlobj, weaken() in Scalar::Util and
>> Devel::Cycle for more explanation.

chromatic> Oh, if that's what it is then also "Better Code through Destruction":

chromatic> 	http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/06/07/better-code-through-destruction.html

And google "site:stonehenge.com weaken". </plug>

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