I would test this on your client's version of Perl.

What you describe should work, but I know that there was a bug in some versions of Perl (sorry, I couldn't seem to track it down, nor do I have them to test, but I am pretty sure that Perl 5.005_03 was one of them) where closures like that would never get garbage collected because of a Perl bug.

I would suggest trying the above with a $req with a DESTROY method that tells you when it goes away. See if it is a problem. If it is, then there isn't much you can do about it other than clean up $req yourself and hope that the memory leak doesn't grow too fast.

In reply to Re: Closures, object destruction and memory leaks by tilly
in thread Closures, object destruction and memory leaks by mpeppler

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