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Re:Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and star... by rm445 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:02AM (#27118911)
Very funny. But leak memory until you have to restart the process seems to be a very common strategy in practice. The programs explode even if the computer doesn't.
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Re:Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and star... by TchoBeer on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:58AM (#27119705)
Many moons ago I remember talking with someone who works in HFT software and they said they'd just load the system with tons of RAM because allocation/deallocation and even manual memory management was too slow.
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