On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:59:09PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > > 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
If that's true, why didn't removing the comments cause a memory drop? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
