Re^3: bit by overhead

I'm also baffled by this:

$x = ['20110106', map( rand( 1e5 ), 1..4 ), int( rand 1000 ) ];;
print total_size $x;;
440

@x = @{ $x };;
print total_size \@x;;
440
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Re^4: bit by overhead by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 06, 2011 at 20:49 UTC
@$x has no extra allocated elements to remove.	[reply]
Re^5: bit by overhead by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 06, 2011 at 20:51 UTC
True. But its size matches that shown by the OP.	[reply]
Re^6: bit by overhead by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 06, 2011 at 21:07 UTC
Hum, it appears to consider the entire array to be overhead, not just unused element slots. The OP's element is already free of unused elements, and thus my suggestion won't help.	[reply]