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The website we're on is restarted every few days because memory leaks are hard.
by badgar 14y ago
The website we're on is restarted every few days because memory leaks are hard.
- aphexairlines 14y agoIt could just be that mzscheme never returns memory to the OS. Perl doesn't.
- badgar 14y agoNot returning memory is different from a memory leak. Not returning memory means the memory footprint equals peak memory footprint. A memory leak is a bug in the program which causes space complexity in memory to grow unbounded. mzscheme certainly doesn't leak memory. HN leaks memory.