in reply to Garbage collection problem??

Can't say why (yet), but I can confirm your findings on 5.8.6 under XP. 

c:\test>junk6
Section A took 1.0150 CPU seconds
Section B took 3.3750 CPU seconds
Section A took 1.0150 CPU seconds
Section B took 5.1410 CPU seconds

c:\test>junk6
Section A took 1.0310 CPU seconds
Section B took 3.4540 CPU seconds
Section A took 1.0000 CPU seconds
Section B took 5.0780 CPU seconds

:\test>junk6
Section A took 1.0470 CPU seconds
Section B took 3.5470 CPU seconds
Section A took 0.9690 CPU seconds
Section B took 4.8910 CPU seconds

c:\test>junk6
Section A took 1.0310 CPU seconds
Section B took 3.4690 CPU seconds
Section A took 1.0160 CPU seconds
Section B took 5.1560 CPU seconds

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Re^2: Garbage collection problem??
by abachus (Monk) on Dec 27, 2006 at 18:00 UTC
    On a 360MHz/1024MB ultrasparc running homegrown linux with Perl 5.8.0 :

    Section A took 10.5400 CPU seconds
    Section B took 22.2800 CPU seconds
    Section A took 12.8400 CPU seconds
    Section B took 22.3900 CPU seconds


    ciao.
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