Re: [GD-Windows] memory leak?

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

>     I had programed an object class which has std::vector as its member.  As the objects
> are created and deleted in runtime,  the memory of the process becomes bigger. The 
> following is a simplified version, in which memory growing seems no harm since the memory
> is released to system once the process exits.  
>    But for real program, memory growing in runtime with objects creating and destroying is 
> not acceptable.


In most STL implementations, vectors only grow in capacity
and never shrink. 

This is perfectly OK for 90% of the cases, and can be easily
circumvented if you are aware of it in the other 10%.