Re: Re: Re: Garbage Collection on Hash delete

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Well I have to work within a Windows environment and use pre-compiled versions of PERL, so I don't know if my version of PERL (Activestate) is bright enough to release memory back to the pool.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Garbage Collection on Hash delete by Elian (Parson) on Jan 13, 2003 at 23:30 UTC
Windows is generally clever enough to reclaim unused space. Unused space will only get returned if an entire chunk is empty, though, which may not happen. Often a big allocation will be carved into several pieces, and if even one of those pieces isn't empty the memory won't get returned.	[reply]

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