On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jerrad Pierce <belg4...@pthbb.org> wrote: >>at each level of recursion. What seems to be the case though is that when we >>start going bac >>up the stack that memory doesn't seem to be released at each pop. If, say, at >>max depth >>500mb of ram has been allocated I don't see that released at any point except >>for when >>perl exits and then of course it is all released at once. Or at least that is >>what >>seems to happen. > > Perl doesn't release memory, it keeps it for reallocation. > This is (was?) one of the issues one had to be aware of with mod_perl.
Normally the memory is not given back, but Perl does make a good faith effort to try to give it back if it is convenient. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=746953 has a couple of examples of where it can happen. However this is not an issue in practice very often. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
