> While this is, technically, just another memory leak... I wouldn't consider it a memory leak* at all, the memory is not lost as it is in a leak, space leaks

> While this is, technically, just another memory leak... I wouldn't consider it a memory leak* at all, the memory is not lost as it is in a leak, space leaks get cleaned up if they are evaluated before you exhaust memory. Memory leaks are not cleaned up until your process dies. I can cause a 1gb space leak 100k times and it will only ever use 1gb of memory. I cannot do that with a memory leak. * the literal combination of "memory" and "leak" greatly imply the loss of the memory, as is generally what happens when you describe something as leaking; you lose it. additionally, wikipedia[0] seems to agree that the loss of memory is part of the definition. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak