Paul Johnson
Achim Schneider wrote:
There won't ever be a space leak without a time leak nor a time leak without a space leak. I'd just call it a leak.
Actually I think you can have a space leak without a time leak. For instance if every time around the main loop I cons data onto a linked list that never gets freed then I have a space leak. If the list never gets used (or more realistically, if the program only ever uses the first N entries) then there is no time leak.
Sure there is: you leaked time while constructing the list. The whole topic seems to degenerate into nit-picking for border cases. One could define a leak as "a property of an error-free program resulting in non-optimal performance", or much more concise, "a trap no sufficiently smart programmer runs into". -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.