[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 @ 10:38 -0400, Joshua Boyd said:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:20:36PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > Only the very best programmers manage memory better than a well written
> > GC system.
> 
> I'm not sure I entirely follow this.  What's so hard or inefficient
> about free-ing something when you are done with it?

Nothing, but you are talking about the most trivial case.

    mem = malloc(...);
    ...
    ...
    ...
    free(mem);

Far more complicated allocations are quite common, and a lot more
difficult than just calling free() on a single reference.

A lot of people screw this up.

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