Re: Re: Clearing an Array of Array's from memory

Freed variables are made available for other variables. The system only gets it back when the process ends.

Update: Fixed typo.

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Re: Re: Re: Clearing an Array of Array's from memory by Elian (Parson) on Aug 29, 2003 at 17:20 UTC
This is incorrect. Whether the freed space is returned to the operating system is OS, OS version, C library, and allocation size dependent. Memory is released back to the OS in many places, including Linux and Win32 (which are two of the more common OSes perl's used on)	[reply]