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Subject: Statistics needed on memory leaks for chess programs

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 20:58:26 12/26/98

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On December 24, 1998 at 09:42:11, KarinsDad wrote:

>On December 24, 1998 at 03:22:36, Komputer Korner wrote:
>>in WIN 95 without CB7 running I had 93% system resources free. After running CB
>>7 it went down to 76%. After closing CB 7 it went back to only 89%, so a clear
>>memory leak.
>>--
>>Komputer Korner
>
>KK,
>
>That is one of my pet peeve's. It takes a day or two (no big deal) to clean up
>code so that it doesn't have memory leaks. A memory leak is a bug like any other
>bug, it just happens to affect your overall system as opposed to the product
>itself.
>
>Do you happen to have any statistics on which chess programs, databases,
>training tools, etc. have or do not have memory leaks?
>
>It would be good for everyone to know this. Especially for those people running
>chess programs in tournaments or across the net (e.g. I went looking into CB7
>for something just before the tournament, forgot to reboot, and my program's
>hash table wasn't as large because of it).
>
>Happy Holidays,
>
>KarinsDad

good idea. I am too busy writing an article on CA 4 right now but if everybody
would do a test on their favourite chess program we should get answers.
--
Komputer Korner



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