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$a="a"; (uses 2 Bytes) $a="a" * 100Meg; (uses 200MB) $b="b" * 100Meg; ... I may be reading this incorrectly, but I don't think the question is why storage for the separate strings "$a", "$b" isn't freed, but why would perl use 2 bytes/character? I thought perl used UTF-8 internally(?). Shouldn't it be using closer to 100MB to store 100-Million chars? Of course if perl had a "use-less-memory" pragma, I might even "hope" that it would store the above string as a repeat-count followed by the string...but that would be expecting a bit... I understand perl may not be as efficient in data storage as C, but seems like expanding a 100MB string to take 200MB is wasting 100MB. Is this what you were referring to, Corinna? Linda -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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