Sylvain Wallez wrote: > So the question is: > - why is the pipeline automatically released? Is to avoid memory leaks? > Yes, in 2.1.x there was no good place for explicitly releasing the pipeline; this required some incompatible changes we did in 2.2; the pipelines are released there explicitly and not automatically. If the pipeline is not released properly, this means that all pipeline components are not released, creating a hugh memory leak.
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