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> `malloc` isn't free I see what you did there. :)

• agumonkey 12y ago
  Ha. I wish, but it was too early in the morning for me to generate such puns.
• wabbawabbe 12y ago
  What's the pun ?
  • jimktrains2 12y ago
    free() is the "counterpart" to malloc(). malloc() lets you allocate memory for your use; free() returns that memory back to the system. The original posters meaning was that "malloc() has non-trivial execution costs", but the other meaning is, tautologically, malloc is the "complement" of free (think true is not false).