On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > and, some software, including > > some web browsers (and, the vile javascript) seem to disregard that > > instruction and its importance, which is kind of like running an internal > > combustion engine without a governor, or, parking a vehicle on a slope, > > without engaging the handbrake. > > These programs aren't written in C. Manual memory management is a dying > art. Most languages these days use automatic garbage collection, freeing > unused memory when nothing is using it any longer. > > This makes memory leaks less common, but when they *do* occur, they're > quite difficult to find. Usually it means you've accidentally retained > a reference to the object in question in some part of the program that > never goes away.
I'd really love it if firefox didn't consume increasing amounts of memory as time went on... Why would it do that? That's been the case for a long time over many versions. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
