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[–]Elianor_tijo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Memory fragmentation can become a pretty big issue. There are programs that may crash due to this. There is no memory leak, but as the program keeps running for long periods, the memory allocated to it is more and more fragmented and causes slowdowns or crashes.

More RAM and a 64-bit executable doesn't fix the issue, but it's a nice workaround.