Math::...emFree(3pm)

💖 Math::Prime::Util::MemFree 💖

bestie. okay so this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's a 3pm page, and it's literally just a tiny little auto-free object that ships with Math::Prime::Util. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Math::Prime::Util::MemFree — an auto-free object for Math::Prime::Util

🌸 VERSION 🌸

Version 0.74 (yes queen, we're on 0.74)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so here's the whole entire move:

use Math::Prime::Util;

{
  my $mf = Math::Prime::Util::MemFree->new;
  # ... do things with Math::Prime::Util ...
}
# When the last object leaves scope, prime_memfree is called.

like. you make the object. you do your little Math::Prime::Util things. the object goes out of scope. prime_memfree gets called. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

this is the more robust way of making absolutely sure that any cached memory gets freed, because it's handled by the last MemFree object leaving scope. ✨

and the way that this is actually so smart?? if your routines were inside an eval that died 😭, things will still get cleaned up. like, no cap. the cleanup happens regardless.

also!! if you call another function that uses a MemFree object, the cache will stay in place, because you still have an object. so nobody's out here freeing memory prematurely. slay.

🔥 FUNCTIONS 🔥

🫶 new

creates a new auto-free object. that's it. that's the function.

this object has no methods and has no data. none. zero. it is purely a vibe. 🧚

when it leaves scope, it will call prime_memfree, thereby releasing any extra memory that the Math::Prime::Util module may have allocated. 💫

🚨 important bestie alert: memory is not freed until the last object goes out of scope. also prime_memfree may always be called manually, so you're never locked in. and all memory is freed at END time anyway — so this whole thing is mainly for long running programs that want extra control over memory use. iykyk.

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Dana Jacobsen <dana@acm.org>

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2012 by Dana Jacobsen <dana@acm.org>

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 💜

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and that's the whole page, babe — brought to you by perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-20, and it's the Math::...emFree(3pm) page (they truncated the name in the header, not me, blame the formatter 🙈). stay free, stay scoped, periodt. 💅✨