我同意vfilby -这要看情况。在Windows中，我们将内存泄漏视为相对严重的错误。但是，这很大程度上取决于分量。

例如，对于很少运行且运行时间有限的组件，内存泄漏不是很严重。这些组件运行，完成工作，然后退出。当它们退出时，所有内存都被隐式释放。

但是，服务或其他长期运行组件(如shell)中的内存泄漏非常严重。原因是这些bug会随着时间的推移“窃取”内存。恢复的唯一方法是重新启动组件。大多数人不知道如何重新启动服务或shell——所以如果他们的系统性能受到影响，他们就重新启动。

所以，如果你有一个泄漏-评估它的影响两种方式

你的软件和你的用户体验。 对于系统(和用户)来说，节省系统资源是非常重要的。 修复对维护和可靠性的影响。 在其他地方造成倒退的可能性。

前甲板

You have to first realize that there's a big difference between a perceived memory leak and an actual memory leak. Very frequently analysis tools will report many red herrings, and label something as having been leaked (memory or resources such as handles etc) where it actually isn't. Often times this is due to the analysis tool's architecture. For example, certain analysis tools will report run time objects as memory leaks because it never sees those object freed. But the deallocation occurs in the runtime's shutdown code, which the analysis tool might not be able to see.

尽管如此，仍然会有一些时候，您会遇到实际的内存泄漏，这些泄漏要么很难发现，要么很难修复。现在的问题是，是否可以将它们保留在代码中?

The ideal answer is, "no, never." A more pragmatic answer may be "no, almost never." Very often in real life you have limited number of resources and time to resolve and endless list of tasks. When one of the tasks is eliminating memory leaks, the law of diminishing returns very often comes in to play. You could eliminate say 98% of all memory leaks in an application in a week, but the remaining 2% might take months. In some cases it might even be impossible to eliminate certain leaks because of the application's architecture without a major refactoring of code. You have to weigh the costs and benefits of eliminating the remaining 2%.

我相信，如果你有一个程序，它将运行几秒钟，然后退出，这是可以的，它只是为个人使用。一旦程序结束，任何内存泄漏都会被清除。

当你有一个运行很长时间的程序并且用户依赖它时，问题就来了。另外，让你的程序中存在内存泄漏是一种坏的编码习惯，特别是如果它们可能在某一天将代码转换为其他内容的话。

总之，最好删除内存泄漏。

我只看到了一个实际的缺点，那就是这些良性泄漏将在内存泄漏检测工具中显示为误报。

If I understood correctly, you don't explicitly free memory (which can be freed because you still have a pointer) and rely on OS to free it during process termination. Though this may seem okay for simple program, consider the situation where your code is moved into a library and becomes a part of some resident daemon process running 24/7. Say this daemon spawns a thread each time it needs to do something useful using your code and say it spawns thousands of threads every hour. In this case you will get real memory leak.

不幸的是，这种情况在现实生活中并非不可能，一致的内存管理技术可能会使您的生活更轻松。

这个问题已经讨论得令人作呕了。最重要的是，内存泄漏是一个bug，必须修复。如果第三方库泄露了内存，就会让人怀疑它还有什么问题，不是吗?如果你要造一辆汽车，你会使用一个偶尔漏油的发动机吗?毕竟，引擎是别人做的，所以这不是你的错，你不能修，对吧?

只有一种情况:由于不可恢复的错误，程序将自行终止。