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

[Andy Armstrong <suppressed>]

On 10 May 2007, at 22:59, Lionel MARTIN wrote:
> 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.

Perl hangs on to the memory used directly by a lexical - in case it  
needs it again. But it doesn't hold on to things referred to by the  
lexical.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net