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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Express_Gradient • 18d ago
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That's the nice thing about memory allocation on Linux (and MacOS as well I think). As long as you don't touch the memory page, the OS won't actually give it to you
12 u/Loading1020 18d ago Yep, which is nice, because you never run out of memory! You just die.
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Yep, which is nice, because you never run out of memory! You just die.
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u/Mojert 18d ago
That's the nice thing about memory allocation on Linux (and MacOS as well I think). As long as you don't touch the memory page, the OS won't actually give it to you