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"Eric Brine via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes: > > lexicals aren't freed when they go out of scope. They stay > allocated (along with their string buffer) for reuse the next time that > scope is entered. Ah, I didn't know that. Makes it hard to work carefully with big strings. You'd be tempted to free big things, above some threshold, on the relative badness of time taken to malloc a new block.Thread Previous | Thread Next