Re: {Spam?} Re: memory leak in gtk

[Junior Polegato - GTK+ & GTKmm <gtk juniorpolegato com br>]

Vincent Torri escreveu:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Michael Lamothe wrote:
>   
> > > From what I've heard about memory leaking, this is not unique to the
> > >       
> > GTK library.  If the rumours are correct, applications like `ls` are
> > notorious for leaking memory, safe in the knowledge that the OS will
> > clean up after them.
> >     
> and if someone calls 'ls' iteratively in his program ?
>   
When a process finish, the OS clean up memory. However, on some cases, 
the cost to freeing the memory is greater than let to the OS.

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