Its been observed that freeing large hashes by doing an undef on Linux is taking quite a lot of time, more than 10 times the time it took to load the hashes. Is there something I am missing?
I use Perl5.005 on Red Hat Linux. The output of perl -V is Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.4smp, archname=i686-linux
uname='linux mglnxcs02 2.4.4smp #14 smp thu may 17 09:57:43 edt 2001 i686 unknown '
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
Compiler:
cc='/usr/bin/gcc -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-87)

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