in reply to Memory issue with Hash
If you really need to reclaim memory from a big hash, fork off the code, and let the fork do the work. When the fork's pid is terminated, all memory will be returned to the OS. It is a little more complicated to fork things off, but you get complete control over memory being returned.
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See Parallel::ForkManager and IO::Pipe for some helpful modules.
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Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh
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