in reply to Does Data::Dumper have a memory leak?

Are you using AcitveState?

I have the same problem with Data::Dumper for very large structures but not self referential.

For some reason $Data::Dumper::Useqq=1; sorted the problem out totally. Of course it loses the speed of the C implementation AFAIK, but it works at least...

Yves
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