Well... "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 programm

Well... "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." https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.ada/c/E9bNCvDQ12k/m/1tezW24ZxdAJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.ada/c/E9bNCvDQ12k/m/1t... "to my surprise the cp command didn't exit. Looking at the source again, I found that cp disassembles its hash table data structures nicely after copying (the forget_all call). Since the virtual size of the cp process was now more than 17 GB and the server only had 10 GB of RAM, it did a lot of swapping." (I believe GNU cp was updated to not free up structures at exiting due after this). https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg00012.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-08/msg0001...