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sambeau
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How the Boehm Garbage Collector Works
And of course there are many valid programs where leaking memory is totally fine (and more performant): shell tools, cgis etc.
When I write any of these, the only time I free anything is when I've had to malloc something huge.
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When I write any of these, the only time I free anything is when I've had to malloc something huge.