No. "fills available memory" is more likely to be your upper bound than any
arbitrary "power of two minus one" that most other languages limit you at.
The only common limit you may bump into is the length of a Perl identifier.
255 characters before Perl 5.6, and lifted to unlimited in 5.6!
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker | [reply] |
Actually I have been very impressed with how efficient Perl
is on performance. Memory, well that is another story.
But try this:
foreach (1..1000000) {
$str .= "hello\n";
}
Now try its equivalent in another language, like C++,
JavaScript, etc.
Impressed yet? You should be! | [reply]
[d/l] |