I create an array @rows, with over 1000 lines of on the fly table rows. Each element of @rows is created with:

push @rows,Tr(td([$cell1,$cell2,....$cell6]));

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If I then use the table function to output to a filehandle:

 print FH table(@rows)

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the in core script memory usage jumps to over 120 mbytes. If I use the the following:

print FH '<TABLE>',@rows,'</TABLE>';

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the in core usage is about 20 mbytes. I found the same behaviour using the div function. I have only tried this on winXP, but the speed and resources saved by doing it without the fuction call is significant. Has anyone seen this, and if so was there a solution?

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