Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Why I Write Games in C (yes, C). Parent comment
If the program runs for any length of time, it will probably need the same memory again, so freeing it is a pessimization.
Standard C library free() implementations very, very rarely free memory back to the OS.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
If the program runs for any length of time, it will probably need the same memory again, so freeing it is a pessimization.
Standard C library free() implementations very, very rarely free memory back to the OS.