Hi there,
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.
In addition to the other suggestions, you might want to try
use integer;
in the bits of your Perl code that manipulate integers.
> I guess I'm paying the price for PERL not being strongly typed,
> a feature I really like ( until now ;-) )
Hmmm.
> I require a large array of ints in a real application
Er, real (as opposed to floating point:) ?
73,
Ged.
