On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 05:51:44PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > > > Am 14.12.2012 um 17:07 schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de>: > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 08:59:37AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > >> Similarly it just isn't worth trying to free resources prior > >> to program exit. Have you ever waited while a big C++ program > >> runs all its destructors, paging in code and data just to exit! > > > > Depends, it makes tools like valgrind a lot easier to use. > > > > Source code should be optimized for readability, performance, > stability, and not for debug tools.
Ironically, proper ressource managements tends to make it much easier to fulfill at least two of the three items... Joerg
