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From: Krzysztof Duleba <krzysan AT skrzynka DOT pl>
Subject:  Re: heap_chunk_in_mb default value (Was Re: perl - segfault on "free   unused scalar")
Date:  Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:21:44 +0200
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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> However code like the above does end up using twice the space; it's
> allocated once to store the result of the x operation and again when
> it's copied to $a.

Really? I hope you're wrong. Avoiding copy operation while declaring a new 
variable with a value is a very important optimization.

Krzysztof Duleba


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