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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C
To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 20:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199605260210.VAA23555@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> from "Soren Dayton" at May 25, 96 09:10:01 pm
From: dima@FreeBSD.org (Dima Ruban)
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Soren Dayton writes:
> 
>  
> > On Sat, 25 May 1996, Dima Ruban wrote:
> > > First: this is not small tool.
> > 
> > With diskspace at the price it is, I don't think size is an issue in most
> > cases.
> 
>  i do not think that this is where the hit is, but I just might be wrong.
> I think the problem is that perl does no real memory management and
> grows and grows and grows and grows and grows.

exactly what I meant, when I said "this is not a small tool"

>  
> 
> Soren
> yet another member of the anti perl/C++ school of thought.
> 

-- dima