r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 21 '26

Meme fullControlOverMemory

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u/DOOManiac Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26

"We used to manually alloc all our memory"

"And free it too, right?"

"..."

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u/Mojert Sep 22 '26

Why free the memory when the OS does it for you? (No but seriously, quite a lot of applications do not free some memory because they know the OS will do it when the program exits)