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		mrgaro 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] There are missiles in which the allocation rate is calculated per second and then the hardware just has enough memory for the entire duration of the missile's flight plus a bit more. Garbage collection is then done by exploding the missile on the target ;)

superxpro12 4 days ago [–]

We call this "explosive deallocation". Destructors have a whole new meaning.

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