"Ornstein, Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have an odd developer question. Why should developers care about memory > leaks in their programs? The OS cleans up the extra junk anyways. Is there > a real technical reason that we would need to get rid of all memory leaks?
You're kidding, aren't you?.. Sure, the OS will clean up once your app shuts down, but the OS does not have any garbage collection per se, so if your app is running for a long period of time, it could eventually chew up all system resources (depending on the location of the leak, etc.) If your app has memory leaks, it's a coding error. Just fix it. The emulator logs make this pretty damn easy too. Alan -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
