Re: Re: Clearing an Array of Array's from memory

[hardburn]

in reply to Re: Clearing an Array of Array's from memory
in thread Clearing an Array of Array's from memory

Freed variables are made available for other variables. The system only gets it back when the process ends.

Update: Fixed typo.

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[Elian]

This is incorrect. Whether the freed space is returned to the operating system is OS, OS version, C library, and allocation size dependent. Memory is released back to the OS in many places, including Linux and Win32 (which are two of the more common OSes perl's used on)