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		hedora 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc Perl frees memory. It uses refcounting, so you need to break heap cycles or it will leak. (99% of the time, I find this less problematic than Java’s approach, fwiw).

wredcoll 77 days ago [–]

Unless this has changed recently, perl doesn't free memory to the kernel, only within its own process/vm.

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