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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by superasn on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:41AM (#16429334)
So that would be like killing a program and respawning a new process instead for some benefit like reclaiming memory or speed (like I do with browser tabs).

I know evolution doesn't work that way, but definitely sounds like an interesting thought.

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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by devnonymous on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:51AM (#16429400) 

  > So that would be like killing a program and respawning a new process instead for some
  > benefit like reclaiming memory or speed ...
  >
  > I know evolution doesn't work that way,
Sure its better now but that's how the early versions of Evolution worked (sorry couldn't resist !).
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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by navaati on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:20AM (#16429587)
For downvoters, I guess parent is making a reference to the Evolution mail/calendar client from Gnome. Which is (was ?) indeed a memory hog.
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