Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] memory leak problem

[Andrey <wa...@ma...>]

Memory leak cannot be normal for any program. So, it is either Perl bug or Win32::GUI bug
But I noticed that same example using Perl/Tk does not cause memory leak.

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use strict;
use Tk;

my $w = MainWindow->new;

my $b = $w->Button(-text => 'test', -command => \&click)->pack();

MainLoop; 

sub click
{
    for (1..10000)
    { 
       $b->destroy;
       $b = $w->Button(-text => rand(), -command => \&click)->pack();
    }
}
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Kinch" <ki...@ne...>
To: "'perl-win32-gui-users'" <per...@li...>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:28:03 +1000
Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] memory leak problem

> Without knowing much about perl or it's internals, isn't this behaviour
> normal for perl, especially on windows?  I was told that when perl variables
> are "freed", the perl interpreter keeps the memory malloc'ed in a pool to
> use again for any new perl variables or data structures it needs.
>