in reply to forced garbage collection

This is a FAQ, answered at How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: forced garbage collection
by cephas (Pilgrim) on Nov 30, 2000 at 06:27 UTC
    Excellent... I seem to remember something about the fact of memory not getting returned to the OS somewhere... (all that system stuff is rotting away in some back corner of my mind...) Also seems to at least confirm that I wasn't completely out of my mind about how undef works.

    Leave it to merlyn to point out the CORRECT answer.

    cephas

    time to recreate the indexes on my brain...