On an interesting additive side note, Perl also allows for the use of last-ditch memory should that last case ever happen. From the Camel's mouth: "However, if your
was compiled to take advantage of $^M, you may use it as an emergency memory pool. If your Perl is compiled with
and uses Perl's malloc then...", etc. It isn't used much, and probably shouldn't be (especially by a novice user)..but it's there.