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Re: Freeing memory used by arraysby broquaint (Abbot) |
| on Dec 04, 2003 at 15:02 UTC ( [id://312207]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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For a sound overview of how memory is released back to the OS see Elian's reply to make perl release memory - Re: make perl release memory. The gist of it being that memory isn't released back to the OS unless it's in nice big contiguous chunks.
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