What is a memory leak?

Bala Subramani
Bala Subramani

Posted On: May 29, 2021

 

A memory leak is basically a resource leak that occurs when programmers create a memory in heap and forget to delete it. It can cause serious issues as reduces the performance of the computer by reducing the amount of available memory which leads to system slowdown due to thrashing.

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