Re^3: Hunting for a memory leak

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Thank you for this. I believe I need to start doubting the CPAN modules a little more.

Tk modules are notorious for leaks -- also , if the module builds any kind of tree, and grepping the source for "weak" returns no hits, 97/100 its leaking :)

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Re^4: Hunting for a memory leak by perldough (Sexton) on Aug 08, 2012 at 14:19 UTC
That's interesting. Would you mind explaining why that is? Perldough	[reply]
Re^5: Hunting for a memory leak by Anonymous Monk on Aug 10, 2012 at 07:44 UTC
That's interesting. Would you mind explaining why that is? Because that is just the way it is :) Trees means circular references (memory leak unless you take some steps), and Tk encourages both circular references and closures -- just look in the bug cue for any Tk- distribution, you'll see lot of reports of leaks	[reply]

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