No, $result does not get destroyed then because it has been inserted into @Test_Results (which is still in scope) -- perl's reference counting keeps track of this. Running the following program with a large number of iterations, you'll see the handle count go up and up, then it drops back to the original value at the end of the program (when @Test_Results has gone out of scope).

use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;
sub test {
    my $niter = shift;
    my @Test_Results = ();  share(@Test_Results);
    for (1 .. $niter) {
        my $result = {};
        share($result);
        push(@Test_Results, $result);
    }
}
my $niter = shift or die "usage: $0 number-of-iterations\n";
test($niter);
print "Look at handle count in Windows Task Manager\n";
print "Then press [RETURN] to exit...\n";<STDIN>;

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