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"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 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.
>
> $s = undef;
Did you mean undef($s), or did something change while I was not
looking? ;-)
Eirik, who doesn't use that feature often either
--
The price of success in philosophy is triviality.
-- C. Glymour.
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