> > 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?
May be Perl is not storing POD somewhere, but in the middle of parsing it allocates some memory which is not returned to OS but anyways deallocated and will be reused on further memory demands?
