Re^3: Out of Memory Error -- Possible Leak?

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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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Re^4: Out of Memory Error -- Possible Leak? by emilper (Novice) on Dec 15, 2005 at 14:55 UTC
then how do you explain this ? try: perl -e ' use Tk; while (1) { my $top = new MainWindow; }' it will fill your RAM at a rate of about 1MB per second ...	[reply]
Re^5: Out of Memory Error -- Possible Leak? by robin (Chaplain) on Dec 16, 2005 at 01:31 UTC
If you're right about that, then it's a memory leak in the Tk module, which you should report to its maintainers. That shouldn't happen, and it's not caused by anything that Perl itself is doing. Seriously, I do know how Perl's garbage collection works. I'm not just pretending. :-)	[reply]

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