Re: How clever is the garbage collector?

in reply to How clever is the garbage collector?

Hi,

As far as I know and previously searched and found in Perl literature, Perl's GC does NOT release allocated memory back to the OS, but rather reuse it within its own process.

Enjoy,
Mickey

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Re^2: How clever is the garbage collector? by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2006 at 15:02 UTC
mickeyn, You will likely find the following links interesting then: Re: make perl release memory Re: Clearing an Array of Array's from memory Re: Re: Re: Clearing an Array of Array's from memory Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Slowness when inserting into pre-extended array Cheers - L~R	[reply]

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