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>BUT, leaks memory like crazy.

Huh?

a) Isn't it written in Golang, which has a GC? Does it do custom buffer based management?

b) Isn't it supposed to be run on a file and get some output - as opposed to an interactice session? Why would it matter if it leaks, then, and how could it leak, as the memory is returned to the OS when it ends?



It's indeed written in Go now, which indeed has GC, and ultimately all memory is freed ... but there are indeed some issues around intermediate retention of memory, taking more memory than one would have expected.

Some gains were made on https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1133 and https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1132






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