Testing on a Solaris box, with the following two scripts:

#script one
$f1="X" x 200000;
$f2=$f1;
$f3=$f1;
...
$f30=$f1;
while (1) {sleep 1}

#script two
for (1..30) {
   $f{$_}="X" x 200000;
} 
while (1) {sleep 1}

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They seem to be identical in memory usage.

Process 1:
Text  VSS: 1.9mb   Data  VSS: 8.1mb   Stack VSS:  16kb
Shmem VSS:   0kb   Other VSS:   0kb   Total VSS:  10mb

Process 2:
Text  VSS: 1.9mb   Data  VSS: 8.1mb   Stack VSS:  16kb
Shmem VSS:   0kb   Other VSS:   0kb   Total VSS:  10mb

I would suspect how you end up populating/using the scalars and/or hashes would have a greater effect.
 
 


In reply to Re: Hashes/Scalars and Memory Usage
by kschwab

in thread Hashes/Scalars and Memory Usage
by Anonymous Monk





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