http://www.osnews.com/story/16698/Resolve_Memory_Leaks_Using_AIX_5_3 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:54:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?191284 http://osnews.com/thread?191284 this should be sent over to the firefox team?

*notices all of the evil looks* What WHAT!!?!?!

Sorry, lol..... I couldn't help it. I know that memory leaks are a big complaint for some, perhaps they could do some developing on AIX machines to clean all of this up?

I'm just saying................. Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (halfmanhalfamazing) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?191311 http://osnews.com/thread?191311 How about programming in a language that automates memory (de)allocation? There, no more memory leaks. Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?191590 http://osnews.com/thread?191590 Actually, you can still have memory leaks even in languages that garbage collect or do reference counting. It's not hard to add an object to some collection and then forget about. The collection just grows and grows until you run out of memory. Granted, it's easier to find what is growing, because you can tell the JVM to dump it's heap into a file for inspection.

Also, languages that do GC have the downside of actually cleaning up their memory space when they start running out of space, which causes pauses and general slowness. And nobody likes that. Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pojo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?191597 http://osnews.com/thread?191597 When I use to program in BASIC I would call the FREE() function to force Garbage Collection when I wanted it done. Among other things if you called it often each FREE() took very little time to run.

Don't all languages that do GC allow you to force it early to control delays? Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Earl Colby pottinger) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?191615 http://osnews.com/thread?191615 Nice that this OS everyone forgot about which would not run on any of your computers anyways has this neat feature

But what about using memory leak detectors for detecting memory leaks instead?
Valgrind comes to mind Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (grfgguvf) Comments