comment on

perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; Dump $a; "
perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr$a,0,2,q!!; Dump $a; "
perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr($a,0,2)=q!!; Dump $a; 
+"
perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr($a,0,2)=q!!; substr$a,
+0,2,q!!; Dump $a; "
perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr$a,0,2,q!!; substr($a,0
+,2)=q!!; Dump $a; "
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on 5.10.0 / 5.8.9

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; Dump $a; "
SV = PV(0x3e6964) at 0x3e8b54
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x98f664 "1234"\0
  CUR = 4
  LEN = 8

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr$a,0,2,q!!; Dump $a; 
+"
SV = PVIV(0x98005c) at 0x3e8c04
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  IV = 2  (OFFSET)
  PV = 0x98f746 ( "12" . ) "34"\0
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 6

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr($a,0,2)=q!!; Dump $a
+; "
SV = PVIV(0x98005c) at 0x3e8c0c
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  IV = 2  (OFFSET)
  PV = 0x98f746 ( "12" . ) "34"\0
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 6

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr($a,0,2)=q!!; substr$
+a,0,2,q!!; Dump $a; "
SV = PVIV(0x98005c) at 0x3e8c1c
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  IV = 4  (OFFSET)
  PV = 0x98f778 ( "1234" . ) ""\0
  CUR = 0
  LEN = 4

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr$a,0,2,q!!; substr($a
+,0,2)=q!!; Dump $a; "
SV = PVIV(0x98005c) at 0x3e8c1c
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  IV = 4  (OFFSET)
  PV = 0x98f778 ( "1234" . ) ""\0
  CUR = 0
  LEN = 4
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5.12.2

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; Dump $a; "
SV = PV(0x3f6d74) at 0x9ba724
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x9bf9fc "1234"\0
  CUR = 4
  LEN = 8

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr$a,0,2,q!!; Dump $a; 
+"
SV = PV(0x3f6d8c) at 0x9ba764
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  OFFSET = 2
  PV = 0x9bfa4e ( "1\002" . ) "34"\0
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 6

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr($a,0,2)=q!!; Dump $a
+; "
SV = PV(0x3f6d8c) at 0x9ba764
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  OFFSET = 2
  PV = 0x9bfa4e ( "1\002" . ) "34"\0
  CUR = 2
  LEN = 6

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr($a,0,2)=q!!; substr$
+a,0,2,q!!; Dump $a; "
SV = PV(0x3f6d8c) at 0x9ba77c
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  OFFSET = 4
  PV = 0x9bfa58 ( "1\0023\4" . ) ""\0
  CUR = 0
  LEN = 4

$ perl -MDevel::Peek -e " my $a = q!1234!; substr$a,0,2,q!!; substr($a
+,0,2)=q!!; Dump $a; "
SV = PV(0x3f6d8c) at 0x9ba77c
  REFCNT = 2
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,OOK,pPOK)
  OFFSET = 4
  PV = 0x9bfa58 ( "1\0023\4" . ) ""\0
  CUR = 0
  LEN = 4
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my observations match those of the bug reports, each lvalue increases the refcount but there is no actual memory leak

in two runs of 441855/295946 iterations , memory remained constant at 2208k physical/ 524k virtual.

perl -e"my $c = 0; while(1){print qq!\r!,$c++;  my $a = q!1234!; subst
+r($a,0,2)=q!! for 1 .. rand(100); } "
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In reply to Re^2: is this a memory leak or do I miss something? by Anonymous Monk
in thread is this a memory leak or do I miss something? by andal

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