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Discussion on: Explain a "memory leak" like I'm five

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Arvind Padmanabhan

There are 10 plates in the house. Every time you have a meal, you pick up a clean plate but don't wash the plate afterwards. Soon you'll run out of clean plates. You'll have to go around the house collecting dirty plates and clean them before you can have your next meal.