Re: perl pad.c Assertion !((sv)->sv_flags & 0x00010000) failed
- From: Tim.Bunce@xxxxxxxxx (Tim Bunce)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:35:55 +0100
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:31:25PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:44:02PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
Once upon a time there was talk of implementing a "less" pragma
so you'd be able to say something like
use less qw(memory);
to indicate that cpu/memory balance should be shifted towards cpu.
Pity that never happened.
It's still on the todo list. It doesn't appear to have become a large enough
itch for anyone to scratch it.
Perhaps in part because a) few people realise that a sub manipulating
large strings in lexical vars will continue to hold that memory,
and b) there's no easy way to measure the memory being held in this way.
Tim.
p.s. I've set Reply-To perl5-porters@xxxxxxxx
.
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