Re^2: Oh where has my memory gone?

Hello, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE QUICK REPLY AND YES I'M YELLING IT! But could I also just do...

sub manager(){
  while(1){
  #same as before...
  }
}
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To reduce memory usage? With or without the need for undef?

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Re^3: Oh where has my memory gone? by bart (Canon) on Jun 09, 2008 at 19:43 UTC
Yes that'll do the same as BrowserUK's quick solution: replace the endless recursion with a loop. Perl doesn't treat tail recursion as speacial, so it's still bad. As in the original code.	[reply]
Re^3: Oh where has my memory gone? by massa (Hermit) on Jun 09, 2008 at 19:43 UTC
Yes. Lose the undefs, they are doing nothing.	[reply]