Re: Re: Closures, object destruction and memory leaks

I _think_ the memory leak you mean only comes up with recursive closures:

my $foo;
$foo=sub { $foo->(@_[1..$#_]) if @_ };
$foo->();
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But like you I dont remember the details...

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Re: Re: Re: Closures, object destruction and memory leaks by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 10, 2003 at 18:27 UTC
Recursive closures leak memory. That is documented and the fix is to use WeakRef. What I am talking about is an actual bug, and I darned well know that it was there in 5.005_03 because I encountered it and had to fix a bunch of code that was leaking memory too fast.	[reply]