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I disagree that it’s a small semantic difference.

I don’t think it’s clickbait though, I think the author was just misusing terminology.



I said it was subtle, not small. I agree it's a valuable distinction.


A memory leak means it leaks, it's not anymore under control. Here the memory is under control, it can be reclaimed by the program.




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