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by diarrhea 195 days ago
The OS is my GC. It's why I segfault liberally.
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I see your point. At some level serverless is popular for this reason. You can just forget about memory leaks (like Vercel does with NextJS ;)

That said, the OS can be a lousy GC; for instance, POSIX-compliant Kernels may not clean up shm regions after processes.