[jchw]

True, it is simpler to just simply never free memory and let process teardown take care of it, but I'm only disagreeing with the notion that it's non-trivial to write servers that simply don't leak memory per-request. I think with modern tools, it's pretty easy for anyone to accomplish. Hell, if you can just slap Boehm GC into your C program, maybe it's trivial to accomplish with old tools, too.

[taeric]

Fair. My push was less on just not leaking memory entirely, and more that it can scale faster. Both using a GC and relying on teardown are essentially punting the problem from the specific request handling code onto something else. It was not uncommon to see GC based systems fall behind under load. Specifically because their task was more work than tearing down a process.