Re: Memory issues

"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@xxxxxx> writes:

Or maybe it is optimized for one-off scripts? One-off scripts rarely
need to worry about hogging memory and it is certainly faster to let the
OS free all the memory at once than to call free a gazillion times.

True enough. In any case, as others mentioned, the perl interpreter is
pretty wasteful with memory in most cases where it could trade off
between speed and memory efficiency.

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