Thread: Memory Leak
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05-28-09, 11:36 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Faldiin View Post
Well we can keep arguing this but I know they can have memory leaks.
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No, they can't. I found the comment I refered to earlier. Scott is a software engineer and an amazing addon author.

Originally Posted by spiel2001 View Post
There is no such thing as a memory leak in an addon, if it matters any... addons use dynamic memory and a garbage collector. Unless the addon keeps adding memory it never stops using, it cannot "leak" memory because as soon as it no longer references the memory, it is available to the garbage collector.
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