On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:29:51AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:49:00PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:58:32 -0400 Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > +------------------
> > | On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:32:51PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
> > | > Find below recent patches to the FAQ derived from postings to usenet CLPM.
> > | > Is there a better place I should be posting these?
> > |
> > | > +If you need to initialize a large variable in your code, you
> > | > +might consider doing it with an C<eval> statement:
> > | > +
> > | > + my $large_string = eval ' "a" x 5_000_000 ';
> > | > +
> > | > +This allows perl to immediately free the memory allocated to the
> > | > +eval statement, but carries a (small) performance penalty.
> > |
> > | Does this really work?
> > +------------------
> >
> > Apparently.
>
> I am not at all happy with this. This problem of using too much memory
> should be fixed at the language level - and not at the program level.
> Such practices should certainly not be recommended in a FAQ.
I agree.
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