Perl inefficiency...
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
sthoenna@efn.org
Wed Jan 24 21:52:00 GMT 2007
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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