Reference Counts
Look at this code
{ my $a = 3; # point A } # point B
SV holding 3 has refcount of 1 at point A
SV holding 3 has refcount of 0 at point B
Can be freed or reused when refcount is 0
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YAPC 19101
, June 2001
Perl 5 Internals
Simon Cozens