Re: Does Data::Dumper have a memory leak?

Not knowing anything about the internals of Data::Dumper, I don't tink the problem is a memory leak; it is a problem of memory not being garbage collecteds fast enough.

In Windows, when I dump a particular 170K data structure the process baloons to 150M and stays there. But when I minimize the DOS window, the memory consumption for the process goes down to normal levels again (as displayed in the Task Manager).

This behaviour forced me to reluctantly replace Data::Dumper with Storable :(

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Re: Re: Does Data::Dumper have a memory leak? by perrin (Chancellor) on Sep 08, 2001 at 00:41 UTC
You were reluctant about moving to Storable? Why? It's faster and is generally considered a better solution on the mailing lists I frequent.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Does Data::Dumper have a memory leak? by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2001 at 05:33 UTC
In this case I cared for the human-readable aspect of the output. Being able to edit saved text files is a nice feature in many cases. /J	[reply]