Fixing memory leaks is good thing, but I want to know apart from memory issues, does Memory leak fixes also helps to improve the performance.
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Fixing memory leaks is good thing, but I want to know apart from memory issues, does Memory leak fixes also helps to improve the performance.
Generally, yes. The main reason is that with memory leaks, your program is constantly going to be getting new memory from the system which won’t be in cache. If you free memory properly, you’ll get that same memory back shortly, and it will already be in cache.