On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:30:19PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > cummulative changes, all running ./perl -Ilib -e 'use Carp; 1' > > mem used at end total malloced > 178232 234839 before the changes > 178232 230735 moving pod to end > 178232 230735 removing comments > 178232 228575 removing pod
<snip> > So moving and removing the pod both affect the accumulated mallocs(), but > don't affect the residual unfreed memory at process exit. I wonder why POD altered the amount of memory used at all. Is Perl storing it somewhere? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern 'All anyone gets in a mirror is themselves,' she said. 'But what you gets in a good gumbo is everything.' -- "Witches Abroad" by Terry Prachett