Hi, I was just looking at DBM::Deep for a script, and tried testing the example code in the perldoc. I noticed that it grows in size with each run, even though the variables are the same. Am I setting this up wrong, or does the hash leak? I get the file growing about 350 bytes at each run. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use DBM::Deep;

my $db = DBM::Deep->new( "ztest1.db" );

$db->{mykey} = "myvalue";

#if you comment this line, it dosn't gain
$db->{myhash} = {};

$db->{myhash}->{subkey} = "subvalue";

print $db->{mykey}, "\n";
print $db->{myhash}->{subkey} , "\n"; 

foreach my $key (keys %$db) {
   print "$key: " . $db->{$key} . "\n";
  }

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