It was memory, not CPU: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=

It was memory, not CPU: https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad... "He went on to point out that they had calculated the amount of memory the application would leak in the total possible flight time for the missile and then doubled that number. [...] Since the missile will explode when it hits it's target or at the end of it's flight, the ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention."