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in reply to Memory reusability

Perl does support reuse of memory, but:

The perl binary aquires memory for the perl program but this memory is never released to the operating system as long as the perl program runs.

So inside a running program the memory is reused but never freed.

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Re^2: Memory reusability
by abubacker (Pilgrim) on Aug 12, 2009 at 06:07 UTC

    Dear busunl ,
    Do you meant to say that each perl program will consume their required memory when it starts ?
    One more question is whether it acquires more memory during run time

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      It does not acquire all memory when it starts.

      It will get more memory during runtime when needed.

      There are two major points in perl memory management:

      1. You don't have to bother, perl will do that for you
      2. Memory will not be freed during runtime

      That's all.

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