On Wednesday 23 Feb 2011 18:52:30 siegfr...@heintze.com wrote: > I apologize if this appears multiple times. When I did not see it > appear, I posted again. > > > Does perl have a feature like C# and Java where memory is reclaimed and > defragmented? > > > I just inherited 25K lines of perl code that uses lots of threads. A > simple grep indicates they have about 100 thread->new statements. > > > Back in 2005 Chris Devers responded to a similar post of mine and > suggested I use fork & exec instead. > > > Do threads necessarily leak memory in perl? That is the impression I got > from Chris Devers response on Jun 19 2005 10:28 in this email list > (although he did not specifically say that). The code I inherited is > running on FreeBSD. Since this is my second day on the job, I cannot log > in yet to check the version numbers. >
I would suggest reading these: * http://perldoc.perl.org/perlthrtut.html * http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=288022 Threads in Perl 5 are error-prone and unreliable, and you should indeed use either fork+exec (or forks.pm on CPAN) or an entirely different language where threads are better supported such as C, Qt/C++, Erlang or C#/.NET (the latter possibly with Mono). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs "My only boss is God. And Chuck Norris who is his boss." Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
