On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:37 AM, William T <dietbud...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can make sure the variables that the memory was malloc'd for have > gone out of scope, and there are not trailing references to them. > Perl will then reuse that memory.
It will keep the memory allocated to the out-of-scope variables unless you undef them. There's a summary of many PerlMonks discussions on this topic here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=803515 - Perrin
