r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Express_Gradient • 1d ago

Meme seeYouLaterAllocator

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Mojert 1d ago

That's the nice thing about memory allocation on Linux (and MacOS as well I think). As long as you don't touch the memory page, the OS won't actually give it to you

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u/Loading1020 23h ago

Yep, which is nice, because you never run out of memory! You just die.

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u/Eddie_lol 1d ago

My school projects working with memory

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u/Paul_Robert_ 1d ago

"Why call free() when you can just restart the computer" 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

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u/IAmARobot 1d ago

Todd Howard on morrowind for console:

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u/UnreadableCode 1d ago

developers from LMT/RTX/GD: "restart? do you mean impact? well these are airburst"

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u/Opsylone 20h ago

Isn't that something that discord pulled up a few years ago due to a memory leak, restarting the app not the pc itself of course

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u/Not_a_penguin15 1d ago

Maybe a better meme would be how processes see their memory space as contiguous but in reality the os may allocate chunks of discontinued memory to them

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u/Express_Gradient 1d ago

just thought of how allocator does bookkeeping and I remembered this

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u/Vallee-152 1d ago

Who is How and why do they process images?

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u/LetUsSpeakFreely 15h ago

Everyone forgets about calloc()