As I do keep tabs on what’s going on with C++ around the web, I chanced upon this short and succinct article about ‘free’ and ‘delete’ not returning memory to the OS from Thought Garage which starts with: When you call free() or delete(), it will NOT really release any memory back to OS. Instead, that memory [...]

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Posted 01-05-2010 11:14 AM by C++ Soup!