What is a “memory leak” in terms of video games?
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“Hey everyone, I’m using the car”
*hours later*
“you’re not in the car? I was waiting for it”
“oh yeah I forgot to tell you I was done”.
Some part of a program grabs some memory to use it, nothing else can use it, then ‘forgets’ to release it. A mistake by the developers. Gradually all the memory gets claimed, and the game crashes when something needs some memory and there “isn’t any”.
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