If you take a look at the XS code referred to in that thread via the link that Corion posted in Re: Uncollected Garbage ..., you'll see that the version was 1.13, and included the following snippet that he identified as the possible cause: 

     if (!CvDEPTH(cv))
       (void)SvREFCNT_inc(cv);

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If you then take a look at the latest version, you'll see that snippet is no longer present.

If you then look at the p5p list, you'll see that dave_the_m identified a new and different problem which also affected first(), and offered a patch to fix both.

My interpretation, having recently attempted to use the reduce() XS code as a template for optimal callback performance from Inline::C, is that trying to bypass work out what the various macros do--and why--is very, very hard.

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Silence betokens consent.
Love the truth but pardon error.

In reply to Re^2: Massive memory leak (AS 810) by BrowserUk
in thread Massive memory leak (AS 810) by BrowserUk

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