Memory leaks in managed languages
Memory leaks in managed languages
Posted May 7, 2009 22:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Memory leaks in managed languages by jmorris42
Parent article: Tomboy, Gnote, and the limits of forks
I considered the 'seven cents of memory' to be a *bad* thing. One cent per
letter? A hundred words costs ten dollars?!
letter? A hundred words costs ten dollars?!
(And that's non-ECCRAM costs. If you care about your data, with modern RAM
volumes, you really should get ECCRAM, even if it is slower.)
Posted May 8, 2009 17:14 UTC (Fri)
by epa (subscriber, #39769)
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Memory leaks in managed languages
A hundred words costs ten dollars?!
Obviously not - I doubt the memory usage for a hundred-word note would be significantly more than a note saying 'hello'. It would still use about seven cents' worth of memory, or perhaps ten cents.