Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:33:34AM -0400, Chad Kellerman wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have a subroutine that declares a variable from standard out. If I > > just undef that variable will that free up the memory that it used? Or > > is there another command that frees up memory? > > That depends on what exactly you mean. When a variable is no longer > used Perl will reuse the memory for other purposes. The memory is > unlikely to be available for other processes because a) Your OS probably > doesn't support that and b) perl probably still has pointers to the > memory. > > To avoid most memory problems: > > - Use lexical variables > - Don't slurp entire files
For that special point, just use the module Tie::File; it means it doesn't use memory to treat even huge files. > > - Buy more memory Sure the best trick... > > > -- > Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pjcj.net > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
