On 24.10.2008 15:03 Michael Peters wrote: > This is only true if those structures were created during run time and go out > of scope at run time. > If they are generated at compile time or attached to global variables or > package level variables, > they will not be re-used by Perl.
Wait a minute, I would like to do exactly that: use a config module in startup.pl that loads some massive config hashes in the hope that the memory they use will be shared: package MyConfig; our $aHugeConfigHash = load_data_from_config_file(); then in my mod_perl module: my $conf = $MyConfig::aHugeConfigHash; (well sort of, it is actually wrapped in an accessor but that gets its data from the package variable) Are you saying, I cannot share the memory this way? And if so, is there an alternative? -Michael
