my $aref = []; print $aref,"\n"; print $aref + 1,"\n"; print $aref + 2,"\n"; print "mem: ",qx{ps -o vsz= $$}; $aref[$aref +2] = "foo"; print "mem: ",qx{ps -o vsz= $$}; __END__ ARRAY(0xf5dba0) 16112545 16112546 mem: 28964 mem: 154844