Lets talk about the DDO Client and its Memory Leak

[EyeRekon]

Garbage collectors are also notoriously inefficient ways to deal with memory, and can cause significant slowdown in an otherwise decent program. That being said, I wonder if DDO's engine uses a garbage collector. I don't think it would.

Yes there are some past terrible garbage collectors as notoriety is historic. Modern ones are actually quite good. Some (non-free) implementations are even used in Realtime Systems where there is a maximum constraint on processing time GC and all. I do not believe DDO uses a GC either.