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Re^2: Perl Memory problem ...by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
on May 10, 2020 at 20:38 UTC ( [id://11116654]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Perl won't release memory back to the operating system at runtime, only on global destruction as the script terminates.While that may be true for most practical purposes, I believe Perl simply defers to the implementation of the user-level malloc function - see for example: Memory is not released back to operating system. Last time I looked, both Linux and Windows malloc do return "large" chunks back to the OS.
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