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Re: How bad i are my coding skills?

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On 12/27/2019 11:13 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 9:28:44 AM UTC-5, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> On 12/26/2019 5:46 PM, chad altenburg wrote:
>>> 4)I found and corrected almost 120 bugs. These were mainly off by
>>> one and memory leaks.
>> 
>> "Memory leaks" in Java?  There's a related phenomenon often called 
>> "packratting," but the classical memory leak is mostly obviated by
>> the garbage collector.  If whatever problem you're experiencing is
>> common enough to merit "mainly," I'm suspicious that you may not
>> have diagnosed it correctly.
> 
> I wrote a memory leak once.  For memory leaks to be a significant
> problem in Java coding I suspect the coder really doesn't know what
> they're doing? not sure what 'off by one' issues are (or what sort of
> app this is)

I think it is just difference in terminology.

If one use terms:

memory leak = forgetting to explicit free memory before last
pointer to it is lost

packratting = forgetting to get rid of last reference to object
and thereby preventing it from being garbage collected

Then Java do not have memory leaks.

If you define both problems as being memory leak, then Java do
have memory leaks.

Arne

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How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-26 14:46 -0800
  Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-27 09:28 -0500
    Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-12-27 08:13 -0800
      Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-27 13:11 -0500
      Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-27 13:33 -0500
        Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-27 13:47 -0500
          Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-12-27 11:14 -0800
            Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-27 16:09 -0500
              Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-12-27 23:10 +0000
                Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-27 16:58 -0800
      Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 01:27 +0100
      Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-29 19:34 -0500
        Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 05:13 -0800
          Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 05:46 -0800
            Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2019-12-30 14:48 +0000
            Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-30 15:11 -0500
              Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 15:55 -0500
                Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-12-30 18:51 -0500
                Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-31 05:10 -0800
            Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-02 04:20 +0100
          Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 08:51 -0500
            Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 10:25 -0800
  Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-12-30 01:25 +0100
    Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2019-12-30 05:07 -0800
      Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-02 04:27 +0100
        Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-02 05:46 -0800
          Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-02 10:43 -0500
            Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 04:54 -0800
              Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 05:00 -0800
                Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-03 11:05 -0500
                Re: How bad i are my coding skills? chad altenburg <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2020-01-03 13:54 -0800
              Re: How bad i are my coding skills? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2020-01-05 18:00 +0100

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