Re: [MacPerl] memory

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 10.21 1998.02.13, Alex Hooper wrote:
>I have a script that reads in a text database containing a catalog of
>items. I read it in and build a big hash of arrays where the $keys are
>categories in the catalog, and the $value is a reference to an array of
>arrays (one array per item in that category). I then take each category and
>build html catalog pages from the data.
>
>My problem is I run out of memory. I wondered if I could use reset or undef
>to free up memory as I go along (and categories that I've dealt with become
>redundant).
>
>Can reset and undef free up memory?

Not really, AFAIK.  What you can do is use MLDBM wit DB_File to save
multi-dimensional arrays to files, which will lose performance, but save
memory.

Actually, has anyone used MLDBM with MacPerl?

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