Perl inefficiency...

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

Linda Walsh <cygwin <at> tlinx.org> writes:
> 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?

No, the inefficiency is that it stores the 100MB string in two separate
places.  It is definitely not using 2 bytes per ascii character in a
single string.

Try Corinna's script under "strace -m malloc -o trace.out perl ..."
with a "tail -F trace.out" running in a separate window.

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