Re^2: Mini-Tutorial: Perl's Memory Management

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re: Mini-Tutorial: Perl's Memory Management
in thread Mini-Tutorial: Perl's Memory Management

'free memory' is when you give up the memory block back to the OS,

'clear memory' is when you, for instance, say @a = ();, the variable still there but without content.

as ikegami said, perl does not free memory, so look at free in C if you still don't understand..

[oha]

for what i understood i disagree, there are 3 phases:

clear release the bind of the data to the variable

free the data is released to the mem manager so can be reused by perl

free to OS may happen in some cases after the free.

Where the first 2 are how perl behave, and the last depends on the system (OS + how perl was compiled)

Am i wrong?