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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!tchrist
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: memory problem with test program
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.144243.14166@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:42:43 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <2038@ltb.ltb.bso.nl>
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- From the keyboard of wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda):
- :We have several perl programs that use a reasonable lot of data in (assoc)
- :arrays. However, freeing those arrays does not make the memory use smaller. Is
- :this perl? BSD?
-
- Few if any implementations of UNIX support returning memory to the
- operating system, and even if they did, you'd have coalescing and
- garbage collection issues that would make it hard to give piece from
- the malloc pool back to the OS.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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