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I got to avoid memory management for quite some time (feddit.org)

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Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Absolutely. I once wrote a server for a factory machine that spawned child processes to work each job item. Intentionally we did not free any memory in the child process because it serves only one request and then exits anyway. It’s much more efficient to have the OS just clean up everything and provides strong guarantees that nothing can be left behind accidentally for a system where up time was money. Any code to manage memory was pointless line noise and extra developer effort.

In fact I think in the linker we specifically replaced free with a function that does nothing.