I've taken the easy way out and written program in C instead.
But I look forward to making use of the XS & pack/unpack
approaches some other time.
Regards
Dave
Can anyone help explain why PERL gives such a large memory
footprint & advise how to get around it.Running the simple script below, I get a footprint of 63 MB
about 22 bytes per int.The C program only 11748 K ... 4 bytes per int
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
for ( $i=0 ; $i< 3000000 ; $i++ )
{
$X[$i]=int(1);
}main()
{
int x[3000000];
sleep(60);
}I guess I'm paying the price for PERL not being strongly typed,
a feature I really like ( until now ;-) )I require a large array of ints in a real application, just stripped
problem down to bear bones for demo.I'd be grateful for any advice
Thanks in Advance
Dave
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