Re: [tlug] Re: tlug-digest Digest V2004 #194

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:35:53 -0400
Josh Glover <tlug@example.com> wrote:

> I like to code in C, but I always heave a sigh of relief when I finish
> up something in C and start something in Perl, for now I don't have to
> worry about such low-level stuff as memory management.
Yeah, when you write a perl script that runs and finishes in a few
minutes, that might be true.
I had to code a pretty complex perl program that handles a couple GB of
data a day and has to be running constantly. The memory usage increases
about 20MB per day. I don't know wheter the garbage collector in perl is
sploppy, or one of the perl libs that use C code is leaking memory, or I
made something silly that perl doesn't like. Anyway, I passed on the task
of debugging this issue to someone else, I'd rather debug a C program ;)


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