in reply to Re: Memory Usage with __DATA__
in thread Memory Usage with __DATA__

But isn't the script source retained in memory?

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Re: Re: Re: Memory Usage with __DATA__
by demerphq (Chancellor) on May 16, 2003 at 06:55 UTC

    Yah it is, but POD isnt, and nor is anything after the __END__ / __DATA__ tags. When the parser(/lexer) hits one of these tags it stops but doesnt close the file descriptor.


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