Re: [MTT devel] Perl Garbage Collection

2007-10-23 Thread Jeff Squyres
I've personally never worried about it except deleting Very Large hash members (like stdout/stderr capturing). On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Ethan Mallove wrote: Open question: does MTT make good use of Perl's garbage collector? E.g., is this good or bad Perl? use Foo; my bar; sub baz

[MTT devel] Perl Garbage Collection

2007-10-23 Thread Ethan Mallove
Open question: does MTT make good use of Perl's garbage collector? E.g., is this good or bad Perl? use Foo; my bar; sub baz { my $bar = new Foo; ... } &Foo::baz(); &Foo::baz(); &Foo::baz(); ... When, if ever, is it best to reclaim memory using DESTROY? -Ethan