From: "Robert Comer" 

>assuming

That's the problem...

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> > > It's a completely legitimate approach to leak memory until there's no
> more
> > > and then require a restart... In many applications on modern systems
the
> > > memory simply wouldn't be exhausted before it was time to close the
> > document
> > > or whatever.
> >
> > I don't think I agree, sounds nasty to me as any forced restart is
always
> > going to be in a bad place for the user.
>
> For an example a compiler that processes source files one at a time and is
> invoked again for each one. Assuming sufficient resources it's probably
> faster to leak than to reclaim, assuming that there are sufficient
resources
> available.
>
> Paul
>
>

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