Re^3: Any downsides to this slurp idiom?

I'm sorry to ask but I'm interested and not sure I follow. Are you saying that BrowserUk's two examples are equivalent in the background with 5.20 and up? Copy on write being used to make the "temporary" data the same as the scalar's?

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Re^4: Any downsides to this slurp idiom? by vr (Curate) on Jun 22, 2018 at 18:40 UTC
Correct. I'm observing, right now, memory consumption reading 400 MB file using both examples, both in 5.18 and 5.20. And trying to read 800 MB file results in "Out of memory!" (32-bit OS) with 5.18 and `$s = do{...};` syntax, but not in other 3 cases. I said "somehow" because scalar doesn't get "IsCOW" flag, but mechanism (do not copy a buffer PV points to) must perhaps be the same.	[reply] [d/l]


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