Woops, what I posted is very buggy. Should be 
my @lines;
$#lines = 12_000_000;
@lines = ();                 <------ was missing
push @lines, $_ while <IN>;

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$ perl -e'print "abcdef\n" for 1..11_000_000' |
   perl -E'
      $#a=11_000_000;
      @a=();
      push @a, $_ while <>;
      say int(`ps --no-heading -o vsz $$`/1000)
'
480

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480MB for 77MB file with 11 million lines.

In reply to Re^3: mem usage by ikegami
in thread mem usage by halfcountplus

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