rekcah,
First, I would like to say Welcome to the Monastery and to Perl. Ok - everything everyone else has said is correct. There will be arguments on both sides on what I am about to say, but Perl was designed with deep roots in Unix - which originally didn't provide a mechanism to release memory back to the operating system. With this said, it is fairly adept at re-using memory without requesting more as long as the design of your program allows it to do its job. Future releases of Perl may even release memory back to the OS, but in the interim - lets fix your code. You will have to adapt it to your specific needs, but this should give you an idea. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict; 

for my $test_number (5 .. 1000) {
    next unless ($test_number % 2);
    my ($prime , $factor) = IsPrime($test_number);    
    if ($prime) {
        print "$test_number is prime\n";
    }
    else {
        print "$test_number is not prime - divisible by $factor\n";
    }
}

sub IsPrime {
    my $input = shift;
    my $t_number = 3;
    while ($t_number < sqrt($input)) {
        return (0, $t_number) unless ($input % $t_number);
        $t_number += 2;
    }    
    return 1;
}

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In reply to Re: Perl Not Releasing Memory by Limbic~Region
in thread Perl Not Releasing Memory by rekcah

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