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28.0.50; Possible memory leak in window-text-pixel-size (bidi cache)

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Martín <mardani29 <at> yahoo.es>
Cc: 48884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48884: 28.0.50; Possible memory leak in window-text-pixel-size (bidi cache)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 15:04:28 +0300

> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:38:45 +0200
> From:  Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 
> I'm investigating how Emacs handles memory and I think I've found a
> memory leak in window-text-pixel-size.  This function is called by
> minibuffer completion packages like selectrum or vertico, so even if
> each leak is around 7,5 KB per minibuffer interaction on my system,
> users interact a lot with the minibuffer in a typical Emacs session, so
> the amount of leaked memory may be substantial if an Emacs session spans
> weeks.
> 
> I don't have a minimum program to reproduce it yet, but here's what I see
> when I trace the code when I use one of the aforementioned packages:

You are right, should be fixed now.

Thanks.

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