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Message #43931
Re: How much do we care about small memory leaks?
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To:
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From:
Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Fri, 29 May 2020 10:32:00 -0400
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We should not be leaking memory in either case and we should care about it.
Which plot window are you are you talking about?
On 5/29/20 10:22 AM, Johannes Pfister wrote:
> As an example, if opening and closing the plot window would leak 3 kB
> each time, would we care about that? And is it justified to increase
> code complexity to avoid this leak?
> If yes, what about "leaks" that alloc memory only once, use the same
> memory till the application is closed and don't free it. Should we
> increase code complexity to avoid this "leaks" too?
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> The reason for this question: There are some of this kind of leaks in the code.
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