On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 8:00 PM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Building RPMs with -Dlint would mean performance > > > penalty because some programs (e.g. sort) would explicitly release complex > > > data structures just before exit, which is wasteful. > > > > I think it may be a bit presumptuous to call cleanup wasteful. > > > > Proper cleanup is inefficient in in some cases, but execution time is > > only one metric. It may not be an important metric, either. > > > > Proper cleanup is necessary in other cases, like performing security > > testing and evaluation. Memory checkers like Asan and Valgrind can't > > differentiate between the "good" memory leaks and the "bad" ones. > > We discussed this already in the thread starting at [1].
Not everyone has GNU's low standards. Jeff
