Why Developers Fear Memory Leaks? and How Can Beat Them Easily

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proc0 · 8h ago

The graphic shows memory leaking like a container leaking water, but memory leak is actually the application not cleaning up its memory usage which means memory gets full of garbage and then affects performance. Memory leak is actually application memory leak, not RAM leak.

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Why Developers Fear Memory Leaks? and How Can Beat Them Easily

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