Freeing

Is there any real point in freeing memory these days? And I don't mean freeing memory for things that constantly grow and shrink in size. I mean freeing that one array that you malloc at the beginning of the program and you need it until the end of the program. What is the benefit of freeing it when it will be automatically freed by the operating system?

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It's called "copy on write". If a process tries to write to the page, it gets its own version but if it only reads it or never accesses it, the shared copy is used.

Yeah yeah IHBT, but some most people here really don't know jack shit.