FFI ExternalAddress and freeing memory

Blake blake at kingdomrpg.com
Sat Apr 16 23:28:33 UTC 2005


On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:28:02 -0700, Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu>  
wrote:

> Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Then, my friend, you have something that's called a memory leak. Welcome
>> to the wonderful world of manual memory management.
>>
> What? People actually use systems that don't look after the memory for  
> you? Surely not - I mean, what a way to live.

Yeah, imagine a world where you didn't have to wonder if the platform was  
suddenly going to consume all the CPU time with automatic garbage  
collection. ;-)



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