[tpop3d-discuss] Apparent memory leak in 1.4.1pre4 under Solaris 8

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:34:11 +0000


On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:19:10PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Perl doesn't have a GC, but AFAIK so long as you're not creating
> circular references or leaving unused objects/data structures lying
> around there shouldn't be egregious memory usage issues.

Hmm. Perl claims to have a GC -- see, e.g., perlobj(3) --
but it's based on reference counting rather than
mark/sweep or however `real' GCs work.

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