Perl bug?

[Andrew Louie]

> > Thanks for the info.  It's interesting to know.  What I still don't get,
> > however, is the fact that the same statement does not waste memory on
> > the x86 Linux Perl 5.8.5, but does on the x86 Cygwin Perl 5.8.7 and the
> > x86_64 Linux 5.8.8.  So it has been introduced only in later versions?
> > And why is it defended?  It doesn't seem to make sense, rather on the
> > contrary.

This question is slightly offtopic, but I am interested in tracking
how much memory my
perl scripts use, can someone tell me how i could do that?

i tried:
$strace script.pl
strace: error creating process script.pl, (error 193)

thanks,
-- 
-Andrew Louie

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