When is it time for a 1.0 feature freeze?

[Stewart Gordon]

Walter Bright wrote:
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> 1) Few programmers realize that C/C++'s malloc/free/new/delete *never* 
> (and I emphasize NEVER) return memory to the operating system. All 
> free/delete do is return memory to the memory pool managed by the 
> runtime library, not the operating system. In order to actually return 
> memory to the operating system, one has to write their own memory 
> management code, which is a significant (and necessarily non-portable) 
> effort. Hardly anyone does that.
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Never?  I can't believe you've tried every implementation out there, 
including your own, and found the same.

Or does the spec forbid free or delete to return memory to the OS?  I 
can't for the life of me see why this would be.

Stewart.

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