Michael Poil wrote:
The word "leak" is the normal term for memory that is allocated by not freed.

It used to be called "storage" and it used to "creep". Now it's called "memory" and it "leaks". Looks to be a case of terminology leaking in the from UNIX creeps. ;-)

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