Re: lynx-dev dev17 clue?

[Leonid Pauzner]

24-Feb-99 11:55 address@hidden wrote:
>> 24-Feb-99 05:46 address@hidden wrote:
>> >> Maybe that is what I have been calling "hanging" --
>> >> freeing its memory.
>> >>
>> >> (Question: why free the memory at all?  Won't the OS
>> >> do it for you -- after all, you are exiting.  ??)
>>
>> > yes.  but to check memory leaks, you have to free all of the pieces and
>> > then see what's left.
>>
>> Well, and if we are not interest in --enable-find-leaks
>> could we ommit these expesive free'ing operations on exit
>> or we get roughly the same timing from OS functions?

> --enable-find-leaks is not enabled by default (someone was guessing that
>   David was using a copy of Lynx which was enabled, for testing).

No, I mean quitting from my DJGPP lynx on a slow DOS machine may takes several
seconds, more then startup time. Think this is due to free'ing a number of
lynx sructures like HText cache at exit. Of cause, I can wait a couple more
seconds and this is without finding leaks.

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> Thomas E. Dickey
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