Do Small Memory Leaks Matter Anymore?

Question

With RAM typically in the Gigabytes on all PC\'s now, should I be spending time hunting down all the small (non-growing) memory leaks that may be in my program? I\'m talking abo

Answer 1

I agree with the earlier responses that leaks do matter.

People may have tons of memory, but they are also running more and more programs, and unless your application is completely hogging up the processor, it needs to play nice with other programs, which also means not hogging up resources it doesn't need.

So, this small memory leak will add up and mean that the user will have other problems, and if they decide they are having memory issues, if they decide that running your app causes them problems then they will stop running it.

Besides, as has been pointed out, if you don't know what is causing the leak then you may have other problems you don't know about. It may be the tip of a bug iceberg.