note hardburn <p><em>I still find hashes a little daunting.</em></p> <p>[BrowserUK] (if I may presume) was speaking in relative terms. Hashes are quite easy compared to (for example) Perl's advanced data structures, object system, or closures.</p> <p><em>While hashes may have a tendancy to soak up a lot of memory, it's not using it for that long.</em></p> <p>The problem is that perl usually doesn't free the memory back to the OS until the process exits (though it will reuse that memory for other things). This is particularly a problem for mod_perl, where the process will stick around as long as Apache is up (potentially years, if your sysadmin is neglegent about security patches ;).</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-195718"> <p>----<br><em>I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.</em> <br> -- [Schemer]</p> <p><code>: () { :|:& };:</code></p> <p><b>Note</b>: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated</p> </div></div> 308947 308993