Preventing cyclic reference memory leaks in Perl
问题 I recently asked a question about overwriting objects and memory management in Perl. One of the answers I received notified me that I may have an issue with a script I recently wrote. I have a script with some very complex data structures that have many parent->child / child->parent relationships. This also means that there are many objects that have cyclic references. According to this answer, cyclic references can "trick" Perl's reference counting mechanism and cause memory leaks if they