Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 at 23:55, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >>> However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant >>> instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages. Doing >>> so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’, >>> which could be used then by --list-dependent. >> >> In effect that means keeping back the chain of inherited objects, which >> would lead to space leaks. > > [...] > >> I agree it’d be nice to solve. I can’t think of a good way to do that >> though. > > What do you mean by “space leaks”?
Unbounded memory usage: each copy of an object is linked back to its “parent” (“previous generation”). Ludo’.
