That coincides with other tests that I've done - capture matching against the 8MB string causes an 8MB growth in memory the first fee times it's done. -- Matthew Horsfall (alh) On Sep 24, 2011, at 9:08 PM, "tchrist1 via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > I bet something is preallocating a capture SV > that's the same size as the original string. > > --tom > >Thread Previous | Thread Next