Originally Posted by Silenia
Are the addon authors lying to you when they say addons cannot have memory leaks? Why would they lie and how does this benefit them?
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Well here is the Official Definition.
In computer science, a memory leak is a particular type of unintentional memory consumption by a computer program where the program fails to release memory when no longer needed. This condition is normally the result of a bug in a program that prevents it from freeing up memory that it no longer needs. Memory is allocated to a program, and that program subsequently loses the ability to access it due to program logic flaws.
A memory leak has symptoms similar to a number of other problems (see below) and generally can only be diagnosed by a programmer with access to the program source code; however, many people refer to any unwanted increase in memory usage as a memory leak, even if this is not strictly accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak
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