*sighs* You're not using Perl for its amazingly small footprint on your RAM or your CPU. You're using Perl for its amazingly small footprint on your development/maintenance time.

In other words, if you're having to worry about if this module will take an additional 1k of RAM, you need to either:

1. Buy more RAM and stop worrying about it
2. Use another language and stop worrying about it

This may sound a little harsh, but think about it.

Oh - welcome aboard! :)

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We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement.