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On 12/17/2013 10:07 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

> On an actual operating system, the attitude of the developers (do they
> actually care or just don't give a darn) is *the* critical issue for
> end-user productivity. If a developer makes a statement such as
> of "just get a faster computer" or "just get more RAM", then (s)he
> probably doesn't give darn. C++ applications, just like Java
> applications, tend to leak horrible amounts of memory these days, just
> because the vendors/developers don't care.

I'll note that Python core developers do care about memory leaks. At 
least one module is tested for memory leaks in a nightly task. When 
found, leaks are patched.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy