Re: Memory leaks

[Jeff Clough <jeff chaosphere com>]

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 17:22 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> I'm afraid you're talking through your hat here. Have your ever
> worked through the code for even a simple shared library that
> saves state?  Freeing all memory on exit can be useful as a
> debugging exercise (e.g. if you get a segfault that tells you
> something), but aside from that it's a pure waste of CPU cycles.

And the fact that so many shared library hackers have this view is the
reason modern desktops need to ship with four gigs of RAM minimum and
still can't stay up for more than a week.

Jeff

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