On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:18:57PM +0100, Marc Balmer 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... > > proper resource management is a good thing - if the code continues > to run. In this case, where the program exits, there no benefit > from freeing up memory etc.
Buncombe. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
