Comment Re:Perspective and Teaching (Score 1) 67
Many of the people reading Slashdot (myself included) have probably heard in class of the days when programmers would write code in such a way as to conserve memory, and of course, be as efficient as possible.
Actually, Linux (the kernel) frees the memory used for initialization code/data even today, so this is not all history. Anybody know of userspace code doing this ?
Actually, Linux (the kernel) frees the memory used for initialization code/data even today, so this is not all history. Anybody know of userspace code doing this ?
