Hi, I'm having a doubt regardng Garbage Collection in perl. Please have look at the piece of code given below. 

package UserScript;
sub Process
{
   my (@List);
   $List[0] = FormData("George",70);
   $List[1] = FormData("Mike",54);
   $List[2] = FormData("Crieg",37);
}

sub FormData
{
   my($UserData) = {};
   $UserData->{name} = $_[0];
   $UserData->{Age}  = $_[1];
   # Doing some processing.
   return $UserData;
}

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One Perl interpreter instance will be created in C code and the subroutine Process will be called many times. My questions is what will happen to the memory allocated by the subroutine FormData?. I think all the memory allocated by the subroutine FormData will not be freed across the calls to the subroutine Procees and destroyed only when the perl Interpreter instance is destroyed ( When the C program Exits). Is there any way to free the memory allocated by the subroutine FormData when the subroutine Process exits every time. Thanks.

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