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OK, so they apparently understood the software well enough to predict to within a factor of 2 the magnitude of the leaks, but not well enough to fix the leaks.
by glangdale 10y ago
OK, so they apparently understood the software well enough to predict to within a factor of 2 the magnitude of the leaks, but not well enough to fix the leaks. I suppose that's possible, but a little unnerving.
- barrkel 10y agoWriting code that explicitly manages memory has costs too; there's a risk of use after free, or double free. If you don't free you can't have these specific problems. And if you accept this, it opens the way for GC style programming, for some parts of the app at least.