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

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Eljay-Adobe

Every night, you take off your clothes and throw them on the floor. You don't clean them up, you don't put them in the hamper, they just pile up.

Five years later, you have no clean clothes left to wear, and your room is full floor-to-ceiling with dirty clothes.

You are now sad. And now you'll need to go to your task bar and kill your Room process. There go all your unsaved toys.