From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 25 21:02:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01418 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 21:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01408 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 21:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25426; Sat, 25 May 1996 23:02:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 23:02:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Soren Dayton cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C In-Reply-To: <199605260210.VAA23555@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 25 May 1996, Soren Dayton wrote: > 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. I know some people that have an accounting package they wrote in perl that has a 50+ meg footprint. Clearly this is a bit of a problem, but it was easier for them to buy more memory than to rewrite it. I'm not saying that perl doesn't have problems, but in most cases, the tasks that you would consider using perl to solve won't be affected by any of the problems listed. (in most cases) Have a good one. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|