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

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Nadin H. ElShanawany

Simply, it's like writing on a white board with permanent marker. The white board is your precious memory space which you want the most possible of, but there are permanent marks from wrongly using your white board. You could try to even take these marks off, but you're ib a dark room where you don't actually see your white board and marks. ALL you know is that you have a white board, and a choice to use either the proper marker and erase, or permanent msrker and attempt to erase.