On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:

> that is my understanding... I guess that my point was that if you are going
> to have the data in perl somewhere the memory is going to be taken (for
> example, putting it in a tempfile but then local $/ and slurp).  pnotes
> allows for passing by reference, so it really doesn't matter when you read
> it in and where you use it, you still only have one copy...

Of course there's no functional difference between using pnotes and
something like:

$Apache::Pnotes::myvar = \$string;

Its really just syntactic sugar to make you think that its a notes table
for a perl data structure.

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