4 KB of Text Was Holding 200 MB of Memory

<div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>kept: 200 strings, 3.9 KB of text heap: +200.0 MB </code></pre> </div> <p>That's the output of a small test, and the two lines should not be able to coexist. An array holds 200 short IDs, about 4 KB of characters. Forcing a full garbage collection doesn't help. The heap stays 200 MB bigger.</p> <p>Picture the same thi

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