Re^4: Timing of garbage collection

It doesn't depend on Perl version, it depends on malloc implementation.

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Re^5: Timing of garbage collection by flexvault (Monsignor) on Jan 19, 2013 at 15:08 UTC
Under Debian Linux the real memory was returned to the system, but under AIX 5.2, the real memory increased after the 'undef $x;'. I used `ps -o "rssize" -p $$` [download] to determine the real memory used. So it looks like it is system dependent code as zwon pointed out. "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply] [d/l]