Suppose that a perl program has need of only one exported symbol from a particular module. Then it makes sense to do 'use <module> "symbol"', instead of including the whole module with 'use <module> yes?. My real question is whether or not the perl process will consume less memory on a machine by doing 'use <module> "symbol"' instead of including the whole thing?

In an effort to test this, I ran the following two commands on my (Linux) system and looked at the memory utilization for each process in the process table they appeared to be the same: $ perl -e 'use Socket "AF_INET"; sleep 10;' & and $ perl -e 'use Socket: sleep 10;' & (This is my first post, so "hello")..

--Mike

Edit: chipmunk 2001-09-16

In reply to modules and memory usage by mbr

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