Memory management with Perl
Steven Lembark
Your friendly introduction to a wastrel
Read the guts documents
Perl only grows, it doesn't free memory until it ends
can easily fragment the heap
Devel::Peek/Size
NUL vs NULL very different
prune vars before assigning them
arrays suck a lot
hashed suck more
So there is lots of infrastructure for arrays and hashes
hashes grow in 2D over time
sort of wandering into Debunking Perl Myths (same speaker) but we mostly talked about memory management but that was ok. We had a good discussion.
