Re^2: Sort taking a long time to clean up

As you note there is/was a malloc bug that led to slow destruction of big data structures. A workaround is:

use POSIX;

# code here

POSIX::_exit(0);
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This skips the normal perl clean up and leaves it to the OS.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^3: Sort taking a long time to clean up by itub (Priest) on Sep 15, 2004 at 21:52 UTC
Thanks, that's good to know. I compiled a new perl with the option "use the malloc that comes with perl" and the problem goes away.	[reply]