Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 14:22:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: chat@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Chat Mailing List) Subject: Re: Adduser program in C Message-ID: <199605261222.OAA17176@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199605260233.UAA22764@rocky.sri.MT.net> from Nate Williams at "May 25, 96 08:33:29 pm"
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It seems that Nate Williams said: > 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 Perl uses the same malloc we use to have: a variation on the BSD/Caltech malloc which doesn't give the memory back to the OS. Using our standard malloc from phk leads to a smaller memory footprint for Perl... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #3: Sat May 25 15:06:58 MET DST 1996home | help
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