The parrot people have gone to a lot of effort to ensure that destructors will get called at the right time, even if the memory isn't neccessarly freed immedetly.

As to how exactly this is going to happen, I'm not clear on the details... both because I don't have the background or the inclination to learn it, and because (last I looked) they weren't ironed out yet.

Thanks,
James Mastros,
Just Another Perl Scribe