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Subject: Re: Getting rid of memory leaks using Nalimov's code

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:28:26 06/05/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 12:18:34, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>I watch chess on yahoo once in a while (used to be very active, but no longer
>play there. I remember often after watching a big time match end I would
>challenge the winner and his response was "OK, hang on I have to reboot (maybe
>it was reload) my computer". I have always wondered why they did that. It was a
>often thing done by various very competative players (chess programs).
>Why ?, this related ?

Yahoo chess probably uses some Java based client, and it
wouldn't surprise me if that leaked like a sieve.

(Yeah yeah I know about garbage collecting but that doesn't
mean it can't leak)

--
GCP



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