Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 20:33:29 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org, Dima Ruban <dima@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605260233.UAA22764@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199605260210.VAA23555@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> References: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960525200957.1255Y-100000@sasami> <199605260210.VAA23555@woodlawn.uchicago.edu>
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> > 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. Not true. If the malloc that perl uses doesn't return memory back to the OS, then of course it won't get smaller, but that's a function of *all* programs, not just perl. Perl happens to trigger it because it does *exactly* what you asked for, which could mean 'slurping' an entire file into memory if you don't know what you are doing. In any case, the Perl vs. C++ arguement is religion, so I've moved this to chat. Nate
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