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I get to work on a number of fairly large vb6 applications, I've run into a situation where there was a pretty major overhaul of one of the applications. Now I think there is a pretty big memory leak ...

My Oct. 4 column discussed leak detection and provided details on basic detection methods. This column will look at more advanced methods. You may recall that the Oct. 4 column outlined various ...

The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object reachable ...