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		jes5199 on Nov 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yammer moving from Scala to Java ruby (MRI ruby, even!) has that same bug.

getsat on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

So does Erlang, but it's not really a bug. Symbols (atoms, whatever) are guaranteed to be a unique identifier, so the fact that they're allocated and exist for the duration of execution isn't really surprising.

It's just something you need to be aware of.

gtani on Nov 30, 2011 | [–]

not a bug, a known issue: interned strings aren't GC'd in python, erlang BEAM, many runtimes.

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