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Perl frees memory. It uses refcounting, so you need to break heap cycles or it will leak. (99% of the time, I find this less problematic than Java’s approach,
by hedora 7mo ago
Perl frees memory. It uses refcounting, so you need to break heap cycles or it will leak.
(99% of the time, I find this less problematic than Java’s approach, fwiw).
- wredcoll 7mo agoUnless this has changed recently, perl doesn't free memory to the kernel, only within its own process/vm.