What are memory leaks and what are their consequences?

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A memory leak happens when your application allocates a space in memory and never frees it again. In a Delphi application, memory spaces are allocated and released all the time. This is often done automatically by the compiler or by the RTL – for example, when allocating variables of primitive types, parameters that are passed to functions, etc. – and we usually do not have to worry...

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