Memory leak in "A simple HTTP retry and backoff loop in Go"

[creativecreature]

Hi,

I think you've forgotten to close the response body in this article.

Here is the output from a pprof before closing the body:

Here is the output from a pprof after closing the body:

I ran 1000 requests.

[brandur]

Thanks Victor. Yep, there's indeed a missing body close there. Fixed in 79a8091. Thanks!

[creativecreature]

Happy to help!