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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:41:19 +1100, Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> wrote: > "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. $s = undef; especially safe when $s is an object (e.g. a DBI statement handle) that may contain big structures. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next