in reply to Release memory in hash of hashes

If there are no other pointers to the values of %hash, then perl frees them. Depending on the operation system it might not hand them back to the OS though, it just reuses it for other data structures if needed.

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Re^2: Release memory in hash of hashes
by vit (Friar) on Aug 17, 2009 at 15:22 UTC
    I don't understand exactly what you mean.
    Let's say I have 
    %hash{A}{B}{C}

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    I thought there should be some procedure which goes starting from %hash and releases all As, Bs and Cs
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      Perl does that for you, if you empty %hash all other items are freed automagically.
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