in reply to Help needed on Devel::Size

See PerlGuts Illustrated - a simple scalar isn't that simple - it contains some administrative overhead for refcounting, magic and some other fields.

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Re^2: Help needed on Devel::Size
by tcarmeli (Beadle) on Mar 05, 2007 at 11:45 UTC
    Thanks!
    Well, cut me some slack here, I'm originally a HW engineer...
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