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0 pointsdiogenes42y ago0 comments

Many types of memory leaks are simply because you're holding on to data you don't need to hold onto anymore. Languages cannot prevent this, at least not that I've seen.

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byroot2y ago

Sure, but the person I responded to was suggesting that Rails was deliberately holding onto memory to re-use it.

That's absolutely not something Rails does, but it is something that some managed languages and some (most?) allocators do.

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0 pointsdiogenes42y ago0 comments

Many types of memory leaks are simply because you're holding on to data you don't need to hold onto anymore. Languages cannot prevent this, at least not that I've seen.

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byroot2y ago

Sure, but the person I responded to was suggesting that Rails was deliberately holding onto memory to re-use it.

That's absolutely not something Rails does, but it is something that some managed languages and some (most?) allocators do.

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