4 Larry Wall Quotes on Memory

Larry Wall quotes on memory

156. Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

255. There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

262. /* dbmrefcnt--; */ /* doesn't work, rats */

298. I might be able to shoehorn a reference count in on top of the numeric value by disallowing multiple references on scalars with a numeric value, but it wouldn't be as clean. I do occasionally worry about that.