What is a leak?

“Leak” is one of those technical words we often forget to explain.

“Leak” is one of those technical words we often forget to explain.

A leak refers to something that consumes some resource in a way that you can’t get it back, like water leaking out of a hole in a bucket and falling onto the ground.

Regarding a memory leak, it’s natural to ask “Where does the memory go?” There’s no good answer to that question, because th…