The OP code won't compile as posted. Show us a script that actually runs.

Apart from that, have you tried use strict; use warnings; ? Also, with regard to handling a bunch of files, have you tried calling HTML::Tidy->new inside the loop on file names? (I don't know that it would make a difference, but maybe by parsing many files using the same instance of the object, there might be some accumulation of content?)

Finally, what particular evidence are you seeing that leads you to regard it as "a huge resource hog"? CPU load? Memory footprint? Something else?

Sorry - I realize RAM is in the title (which should mention "HTML::Tidy", rather than "Perl tidy", which is something else entirely). So, how much RAM are you talking about?

In reply to Re: HTML::Tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate by graff
in thread HTML::Tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate by Anonymous Monk

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