Re: NSQL question
Michael Peppler <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 17:52 -0400, Wechsler, Steven wrote: > Michael -- > > I've been wondering - > > If you use nsql() to return a large array or hash, does the memory for > that array get automatically deallocated somehow? Or is that up to the > calling script, otherwise the memory will only be retunred on script > exit? When the perl variable(s) that refer to the hash or array go out of scope the memory is freed in the perl process. This means that perl can reuse that memory for other things, but the memory is not returned to the OS until the process exits. That's the normal behavior for just about any OS/memory allocation system that I've ever used. Michael -- Michael Peppler - [email protected] - http://www.peppler.org/ Sybase DBA/Developer Sybase on Linux FAQ: http://www.peppler.org/FAQ/linux.html