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?


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