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I mean - ridicule ain't so bad. I wrote a Tetris game that memory leaks whatever gigabytes you throw at it. important thing is what you learn from that

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But it leaks blocks of memory right?

So when we get a full segment we can free them all at the same time?

Sorry, couldn't resist...

Meta Tetris - game screen is a representation of your available RAM, if game's over, computer freezes. Interesting idea

Oh, we had that back in the day, or something very similar, but with disk.

We used to play the "defrag" game for hours...

In the same vein as the "doom or bad apple in task manager" on a machine with an absurd core count.

Today I visualized the buddy allocator as memory Tetris.

Haha, I remember my first game leaking a texture on every frame! :D My first optimization was to, are you ready: Make the texture smaller!

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