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		streptomycin on July 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everybody Hates Firefox Updates > still leaking like Eratosthenes' sieve It leaks a lot when it's using a tiny amount of memory, and it leaks hardly at all when it's using a large amount of memory?

smsm42 on July 7, 2012 | [–]

No, it leaks endlessly without any theoretical bounds and there's no amount of memory that it's leaking won't exceed given enough time.

streptomycin on July 7, 2012 | | [–]

So you're saying that it's more like a normal sieve than Eratosthenes' sieve?

pixelbath on July 8, 2012 | [–]

Apparently it only leaks into address locations that are prime, and setting all others to null.

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