Re: Memory leaks

[Andreas Schwab]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> I have begun to wonder if obarray gets freed after buffer-local-var stops
>>>> pointing to it, say through another setq to buffer-local-var.
>>> Obarrays are ordinary vectors, that get garbage collected like any other
>>> object.
>> I didn't think the vectors themselves would be in trouble, but rather what
>> is behind the vectors: the buckets, the symbols and so on.  Even after the
>> vectors are gone, there could be references to the symbols in other places,
>> could there not?  So, it is not entirely clear when all that memory could
>> be collected?
>
> But then you'd have lots of symbols, not lots of vectors.

Unless those symbols have lots of vectors as some of their values.

Andreas.

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