Nicholas, tl;dr: TAP::Harness uses lots of RAM to store test results > Particularly lots and lots for millions of little "ok\n"s > It would be nice if it didn't use lots of RAM when storing things that > mostly > pass. >
Yes, I ran into this before.(*) I was referred to a portion of the Test::Builder POD(**) which says that perhaps it will be fixed one day. :-D I guess "one day" hasn't come yet ... Perhaps some of these references will inspire someone with enough tuits to work on a patch ... ? -- Buddy (*) http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-qa/12708/ (**) https://metacpan.org/module/Test::Builder#MEMORY