What things must I know about OpenAL memory management?

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Published on 2010-05-08T16:46:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 16:48 UTC
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I am playing sound with OpenAL, and it seems to increase memory footprint dramatically for every little sound I play. It seems that OpenAL never frees memory itself and that playing a Source causes memory footprint to grow.

I couldn't find any good resources about OpenAL memory management, but I bet I must do a lot of stuff myself. Maybe someone knows a ressource for that?

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