programming language subpost
"if you somehow manage to use up 8 GB of memory on a computer, something's very wrong"
okay sure, I'm with you so far
"your problem is perl, you need to use a real language like C"
...um, what.
Excuse me.
Manual memory management is not The Only Way. A few kilobytes of memory here and there is not always worth that massive pain.
And that manual memory management you're touting makes it way, /way/ easier to spring memory LEAKS, which are far worse for overall memory usage than whatever Perl does.
re: programming language subpost
Like, in embedded environments? Sure, you need every byte you can get. On desktop? Not really.
Sure, don't /waste/ memory willy-nilly, but you don't need to jump through every possible hoop to conserve memory either.
