I thought I had seen somethink about this, but does Perl reserve a block of memory upon startup for user variables? Or are user variables always allocated when they are created/initialized with Newx, Newxz ?
From some benchmarks it seems that Perl does set some memory aside to avoid requesting memory from the OS all the time, and I thought I had seen some material about how to modify this "scratch space" but I could be very wrong or senile.

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