racket / racket/drracket

out of control memory use on rhombus/private/string.rkt

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Description

If I open rhombus/private/string.rkt from the rhombus-prototype repository, DrRacket quickly completes background expansion but memory use (as reported in the bottom corner) continues growing without bound (eg from 800MB to 8GB in a couple minutes). Nothing appears to be happening while this memory usage growth happens, and it hasn't happened with other Rhombus programs that I've noticed.

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Research direction

Open rhombus/private/string.rkt from the rhombus-prototype repository in DrRacket and reproduce the background-expansion memory growth described in the issue. Start by identifying what continues running after expansion completes; done means opening the file no longer causes unbounded memory growth.

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Assessment

Domain
performance, tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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