Re: [MacPerl] Memory leak?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 17.29 12/8/97, Strider wrote:
>It looks for duplicates using a hash system (not too accurate, I know, but
>it works, and I figure it's much faster than using s// (am I wrong?)) and
>outputs a database without duplicates. The file I'm parsing is 4.7mb, and
>using 10mb of memory, Perl runs out. Is there a leak here, do hashes take
>up a huge amount of space more than tab-delimited text, or what?

Hashes take lots of internal Perl memory, yes.

I am not sure what you are trying to do in "finding duplicates" ... there
is probably another way.

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