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=={{header|Perl}}==
In general, memory allocation and de-allocation isn't something you can or should be worrying about much in Perl.
Perl manages its own heap quite well, and it is exceedingly rare that anything goes wrong. As long as the OS has memory to give,
a perl process can use as much as it needs.
Memory allocated to lexicals, i.e. <tt>my()</tt>, variables cannot be reclaimed or reused even if they go out of scope
(it is reserved in case the variables come back into scope). You can 'hint' that memory allocated to global variables
can be reused (within your program) by using <tt>undef</tt> and <tt>delete</tt>, but you really have little control over
when/if that happens.
=={{header|Perl 6}}==
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