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Re: Re: Re: make perl release memory

by gellyfish (Monsignor)
on Jun 19, 2003 at 15:10 UTC ( [id://267223]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: make perl release memory
in thread make perl release memory

Well, a cursory test of: 

   main()
   {
       char *foo = (char *)malloc(1000000);
       getch();
       free(foo);
       getch()
   }

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Examined in task manager would suggest not, of course this is highly unscientific and someone else might know different. 

/J\

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