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> If you think this approach is wrong, could you articulate the reasons why you think it is wrong?

Because later if you want to reuse parts of the code in a continuous environment (e.g. a daemon), then you will be surprised that you have memory leaks all over the place (or worse, someone else will discover it by accident).

I don't have a problem with the end-of-process-releases-all-memory optimization. But I had the impression that the author uses let's-worry-about-leaks-later-because-OS-takes-care-of-it-for-free-(in-my-use-case).

Best approach to take would be to create a memory pool with fast allocation (e.g. TLAB allocation in Java, or how computer games do it), in order to have control over how the memory is freed or when.