"In a GC language, the garbage collector will only reclaim resources which are no longer live. Assuring a resource is reclaimed is no easy task in a non-trivial piece of software. The best way to assure a resource is released is for the programmer to set pointers to null when they no longer refer to a resource (or let them go out of scope), and to minimize the sharing of objects (which is just good practice)."
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Myths of Memory Management:
Mozilla and hypocrisy
Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to Yahoo and making that the default upon ...
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via VMware blog
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Intrusion Detection with Tripwire : "Do this by adding a comma after the severity= line and putting emailto= on the next line, followed...
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Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to Yahoo and making that the default upon ...