Tiny/Small C++ libraries

[Brad Roberts]

On 8/5/2012 7:09 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, August 05, 2012 18:57:07 Brad Roberts wrote:
>> On 8/5/2012 5:19 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> Last I heard, it never releases _any_ memory, and the one attempt to fix
>>> that via a garbage collector tanked performance. It _is_ something that
>>> needs to be sorted out one of these days though.
>>
>> It's often said, and never true.  It's patently obvious that it releases
>> memory by simply grepping the source for 'free'.
> 
> Then why on earth does the memory consumption keep going up and up the more 
> CTFE-related stuff a module is doing. It certainly _looks_ like it doesn't free 
> any of _that_ memory at least, and I've definitely heard that it didn't, but I 
> obviously could have heard wrong. I've never studied the code to figure out 
> what it's doing.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
> 

Um, because there's a large amount of room between never releasing any and always releasing everything?