Re: Memory overhead of blessed hashes

Perl object memory overhead can be useful for benchmarking this in more depth.

Probably not your case but if these objects/hashes are constantly created, used and deleted, then forgotten references to them can stop the garbage collector from cleaning them up. Typical memory leak scenario.

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Re^2: Memory overhead of blessed hashes by LanX (Saint) on Feb 09, 2021 at 17:31 UTC
I agree that a memory leak is the most likely cause. It's not my code and I don't wanna get deeper involved as long as the stakeholders keep insisting on their voodoo technologies° But while consulting I got into an argument with another very well respected member of the Perl community talking about "the non trivial overhead of bless magic" and I wanted to make sure I'm not missing any inner optimizations. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) aka `say qw/agile try-and-error cargo-cult experience pragmatic/[ rand 5 ] for 1..3`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Memory overhead of blessed hashes
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 09, 2021 at 17:31 UTC

It's not my code and I don't wanna get deeper involved as long as the stakeholders keep insisting on their voodoo technologies°

But while consulting I got into an argument with another very well respected member of the Perl community talking about "the non trivial overhead of bless magic" and I wanted to make sure I'm not missing any inner optimizations.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

°) aka say qw/agile try-and-error cargo-cult experience pragmatic/[ rand 5 ] for 1..3

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[d/l]