[Info-vax] Running Alpha VMS under the ES40 emulator

[JF Mezei]

On 13-10-13 14:23, David Froble wrote:

> This all goes back to good design and programming practices.  I can 
> imagine someone programming with no intention of ever freeing memory.

For a program that has short lifespan, this is less of a problem because
all memory is released at end of program.

The other problem is that kids today are brought up on langiages such as
perl, java, javascript where there is no concept of allocating and
deallocatring memory because it is assumed to be done behind the scenes
on your behalf, so they never develop the discipline to build apps to
always be able to fully deallocate all structures associated with an object.

In the case of Firefox, it is easy to place Firefox, but lets not forget
plug-ins which can also have poorly written code.

In my case, I tend to restart Firefox when it has reached about 3 gigs
of RAM. When I restart it and reopen all previous tabs, it gets to baout
700 megs. And then rises to 3 gigs over a few days despirte my closing
tabs etc.