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..
'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..
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Re^3: Mini-Tutorial: Perl's Memory Management
by oha (Friar) on Oct 28, 2009 at 17:21 UTC |
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