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NASM Forum => Using NASM => Topic started by: nobody on December 05, 2008, 02:56:58 PM

Title: Memory
Post by: nobody on December 05, 2008, 02:56:58 PM

Is it possible to have a program every now and then clean the memory its using.  For example:

Mozilla Firefox has a memory leaking problem, so the longer it sits there, the higher the memory usage goes up.  What if Mozilla was able to clean up after itself every now and then, keeping the memory usage to minimal.

Just an example.

Title: Re: Memory
Post by: nobody on December 06, 2008, 08:35:13 AM

Every OS does this ;-)

Title: Re: Memory
Post by: nobody on December 06, 2008, 10:08:18 AM

Well, if OS's do it......then why dont people program their programs to do it also?

Title: Re: Memory
Post by: nobody on December 06, 2008, 11:23:27 AM

No need ... if app gets killed by OS or itself all leaked memory is unhogged by the OS ;-)