Re: LARGE PERL footprint

[Perrin Harkins]

On Fri, 19 May 2000, David Larkin wrote:
> Can anyone help explain why PERL gives such a large memory
> footprint & advise how to get around it.

Your array might be smaller if you pre-extend it to the size you need (see
perldata).  You could also look at some of the sneaky bit vector modules
on CPAN if your data is appropriate for this.  And you could try switching
between perl's malloc and your system's malloc, though this requires you
to build a new version of perl.

- Perrin