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an aside: i have been asked three times in separate technical interviews (several years apart even) how to leak memory in java (once in python).
by nsfmc 15y ago
an aside: i have been asked three times in separate technical interviews (several years apart even) how to leak memory in java (once in python).
- zlapper 15y agoI would like you to show us some examples!
- quanticle 15y agoI can't remember any Java examples at the moment, but I do recall a memory leak that I had created in C#. Registering an event handler in .Net creates a reference to the handler. This means that an event handler that doesn't un-register itself from it's event will never be garbage collected. In the context of a GUI application, this means that you have to be careful to ensure that child windows remove their event handlers when they're closed. Otherwise, your application will leak memory, as the closed windows will never be garbage collected.