Will Perl 6 deal with large amounts of memory?
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There are currently some problems with the Perl process itself that make it less scalable for applications that use large amounts of memory, as well as applications that you'd like to keep running awhile. Will there be a way to recover from out of memory situations without recompiling the Perl core (which to my knowledge only allows you to recover once)?
I've also found that Perl doesn't seem to re-order memory when it's freed, meaning that requests for large memory blocks can cause small memory leaks to explode since they'll pollute memory. Do you have any plans of making changes here?
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There are currently some problems with the Perl process itself that make it less scalable for applications that use large amounts of memory, as well as applications that you'd like to keep running awhile. Will there be a way to recover from out of memory situations without recompiling the Perl core (which to my knowledge only allows you to recover once)?
I've also found that Perl doesn't seem to re-order memory when it's freed, meaning that requests for large memory blocks can cause small memory leaks to explode since they'll pollute memory. Do you have any plans of making changes here?