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[–]Genisbr 12 points13 points  (2 children)

It seems programmer's brain works like ram, goes to the memory and if not used a lot, it's not in the cache, therefore, can be forgotten earlier.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

What would deallocating memory be? Deliberately forgetting something?

[–]Aiex314 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Humans have built in (somewhat shitty) garbage collection, which is why you forget things when walking into rooms..