>In the rare cases where your program needs to be long-running, leaks may become a real problem. Where did this idea come from? I have seen leaks where a progr

>In the rare cases where your program needs to be long-running, leaks may become a real problem. Where did this idea come from? I have seen leaks where a program can consume all available memory in just a few seconds because the programmer (definitely not me...) forgot to free something in a function called millions of times.