Re: memory leaking with closures

[Perrin Harkins]

> With this simple test script:
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> my $var = 'x' x 500000;
> my $sub = sub { my $sub2 = sub { $var; }; };
> print "Done\n";
>
> $var does not get freed, and the process grows each request. Has anyone
> seen this sort of behavior and have any ideas/workarounds (besides don't
> do that).

I've commented on this before, as have others, in the context of using
Error.pm.  There is no workaround for this except "don't do that."
- Perrin