Dr.Ruud wrote: > Wiggins d'Anconia: > > >>the memory will still be available to the same process, >>so it will not be available to other programs for instance until the >>program has ended. > > > And even that is not entirely true, because the memory manager of your > OS can decide to swap stale stuff from precious RAM to disk, making "the > memory" available for the same process or for other programs. >
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