--- Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/10/07, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless I'm misunderstanding you that's not true. > When a value's > > reference count goes to zero the memory is freed - > at least to Perl > > if not to the OS. > > No, it's not. I know it's counter-intutive, but > this is a feature of > Perl, and the behavior has been discussed and > confirmed a number of > times, both on this list and on perlmonks.org. > > - Perrin >
hm. lexical variable release memory to perl. but reference doesn't.. can someone confirm on this or pass a link related to it? James. ____________________________________________________________________________________You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html