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- Subject: Re: When are coroutines collected?
- From: Tony Finch <dot@...>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:01:14 +0000
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Javier Guerra wrote:
>
> AFAIR, on unix (and unix-like) systems, a process never releases
> memory back to the OS, but it's managed internally as free.
They often have the ability to do so, but patterns of allocation often
make it unlikely to happen, especially for small allocations.
Tony.
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