Here is the simplest example of what I'm playing with.

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
my $DOWARN = 0;

BEGIN { $SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub { warn $_[0] if $DOWARN } }

my $symbol_list = "symbolsV1p1.dat";
my @symbol_pool = ();
my $symbol_size = 0;
my $index = 0;
my $seed = "while ";
my $embryo = $seed;
my $MAX_ITER = 10;
my $i = 0;
my $result = undef;

print "test.pl started...\n";

# Open my file list of symbols and functions 
# I will randomly jumble around and eval. 
open(SYMBOLS, "<$symbol_list") or die "Could not open $symbol_list: $!
+\n";

while (<SYMBOLS>) {
    chomp $_;
    print "symbol_pool character is: $_\n";
    push(@symbol_pool, $_);
}
close(SYMBOLS);

$index = int(rand($symbol_size));
print "Initial embryo is:\n$embryo\n";
while (1) {
    $embryo = $embryo . $symbol_pool[$index] . ";";

    $result = eval($embryo);

    # Print out the successful string eval's
     if ($result != undef) {
        print "\n\nA working one liner has been generated!\n";
        print "$embryo\n";
        print "Line: $i\n\n";
        $i++;
    }

    # Truncate the string to keep it from growing infinitely long
    if (length($embryo) >= 80) {
        $embryo = $seed;
    }

    # Stop the script after I get a few successful string eval's
    if ($i == $MAX_ITER) {
        print "Program finished\n";
        exit(0);
    }

    $index = int(rand($symbol_size));

}
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Not so useful without (a sample of) the symbols file.

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Wouldn't it make sense to move your first occurrence of:

$index = int(rand($symbol_size));
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... inside the while loop (right at the top of the loop), and then remove the occurrence at the end of the loop?

That is, not:

foo();
while (1) {
  bar();
  foo();
}
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But instead:

while (1) {
  foo();
  bar();
}
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It should have the same effect; be more compact and avoid repetition.

Anyway, I believe the reason you're leaking memory is that your evaluated strings can end up containing variables, and those variables are not lexicals, so they get stored in the package stash.

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

Yeah the code that is being generated needs to be more constrained. I can't just throw any kind of garbage at it and believe it will get thrown away properly without my help. Thanks for the help!