Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:20:35 06/05/01
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On June 05, 2001 at 11:59:58, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >On June 05, 2001 at 11:18:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>I'm not sure I follow here. Once he allocates buffers, they are needed until >>the program terminates. It is a total waste of time to free things just before >>you terminate as that causes the "free" stuff to be done _twice_. Once by >>the C library to your virtual memory address space (for the free() calls) and >>then once by the OS to mark the entire program's physical addresses as "free" >>when it terminates... > >It's considered good practice to put the toys back on the shelf after playing >with them. [as opposed to waiting for mom to do the job] > >Regards, > >Sargon It isn't considered a good practice by me... unless you are going to free things then run a while longer. But if you are going to free and immediately exit, it is more efficient to just exit, for the reason I already gave.
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