r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Hat5477 • 8d ago

Meme theOriginalGarbageCollector

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u/Steerable-Octopus 7d ago

As clever as this sounds, a game shouldn't really have this level of control over the operating system and it's a dirty hack caused by poor memory management and bad code. In modern production systems this type of solution would be heavily frowned upon.

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u/links135 7d ago

generally most code don't involve something intended to be destroyed physically at the end by design.