in reply to Re^2: Out of Memory Error -- Possible Leak?
in thread Out of Memory Error -- Possible Leak?
That isn't possible, because Perl doesn't use a separate garbage collector. It simply reference-counts all its data (scalars, arrays, hashes etc) and frees an item when its reference count drops to zero.
(This is why circular data structures cause memory leaks.)
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