On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:55:39AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > 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?
probably buffers used by the IO subsystem while reading in the src -- Lady Nancy Astor: If you were my husband, I would flavour your coffee with poison. Churchill: Madam - if I were your husband, I would drink it.
