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memory issues with the decoder #8

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@bijwaard

There are some memory issues in decoder.run() according to valgrind/memcheck. I looked at the decoder source and spotted two new unsigned char[_currentLength] statements (for string and bytes) that are not freed. The char array for std::string copies the data twice which would not be necessary (e.g. add a _in->get_string(str,_currentLength), for a byte array it is probably best freed after calling listener.on_bytes(), returning a const pointer within cbor_input memory may be a bit dangerous.
I tested "delete data" after calling the listener callback in decoder.cpp (i.e. after _listener->on_bytes and _listener->on_string), and this resolved the memory leak for both cases.

Reducing copying of input data may bring the CBOR-cpp performance closer to BSONcxx (some early performance tests show about 9% speed difference for the same JSON data { "postcode":10000, "temperature":27, "relhumidity":35 } received over zeromq and averaging the temperature of 100000 messages like in the zeromq weather service example).

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