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Postings from November 1999
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 at 10:03:19 -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:48:01 +0100, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > ># I don't understand the way Perl garbage collects its memory when it dies. > ># It does not systematically call registered destructors (DESTROY) on objects. > This would be a bug. If you have a short test case, that would be good > to see. Note that Perl doesn't do any sort of cleanup if you call exec(). This is right (consider the use of fork+exec), but you need to be aware of it, especially if tainted evals are available to the user. I confess to having thought about using this to speed up a program (that spent 50% of its run time in removing blessed objects with no destructors). Presumably it doesn't clean up on fatal memory exhaustion, either. IanThread Previous