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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> ...
> It's terrible advice in generality, because it encourages a sloppiness
> of thinking: "Memory usage doesn't matter, we'll just instruct people
> to reset everything now and then".

"Memory usage" may matter. But if you loose 1 kb a day, your process
can run 3 years before you have lost 1 MB. Compare this to the
485 MB used when you start "firefox". The situation looks different
when you loose 10 MB a day.