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Re: Re: Garbage Collection on Hash deleteby Elian (Parson) |
on Jan 13, 2003 at 02:58 UTC ( [id://226380]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Perl will release memory back to your C runtime library. Depending on what that is, memory may well get released back to the system. This has worked for years on VMS and MacOS, and reasonably recent versions of glibc will also release memory in some circumstances back to the system.
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