Re: After retrieving data from DB, the memory doesn't seem to be freed up

["Lionel MARTIN" <suppressed>]

> When the array goes out of scope its reference count is decremented.  If 
> the reference count goes to zero (implying there are no more  references) 
> the memory is released.

I would have believed the same, and that's why I believed that

$tmp = [0..100000];

followed by
$tmp = 1;

would free memory (no more reference to the anonymous array), but Perrin is 
telling me this is not the case.