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Memory leaks in managed languages

Memory leaks in managed languages

Posted May 4, 2009 4:19 UTC (Mon) by jordanb (subscriber, #45668)
In reply to: Memory leaks in managed languages by JoeBuck
Parent article: Tomboy, Gnote, and the limits of forks

Emacs quit being a bloated program the day Eclipse was released.

That may pose some sort of correlation to Wirth's Law: if you software is considered bloated, all you have to do is wait a bit and someone will come along and blow you away by an order of magnitude.


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