Version 1 of Why does Tcl leak memory?

Updated 2005-07-21 15:58:06

It doesn't, with rare exceptions.

[Details.]

TCT takes memory leaks [ref] very seriously. Few ever escape into a release, and few known ones survive long.

However, there are at least an order of magnitude more perceived memory leaks. These result mainly from two causes:

  • mis-measured memory use
  • userland, or application-level, memory leaks.

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