Issue #20150 has been reported by peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu). ---------------------------------------- Bug #20150: Memory leak in grapheme clusters https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20150 * Author: peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: REQUIRED, 3.2: REQUIRED, 3.3: REQUIRED ---------------------------------------- GitHub PR: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9414 String#grapheme_cluters and String#each_grapheme_cluster leaks memory because if the string is not UTF-8, then the created regex will not be freed. For example: ```ruby str = "hello world".encode(Encoding::UTF_32LE) 10.times do 1_000.times do str.grapheme_clusters end puts `ps -o rss= -p #{$$}` end ``` Before: ``` 26000 42256 59008 75792 92528 109232 125936 142672 159392 176160 ``` After: ``` 9264 9504 9808 10000 10128 10224 10352 10544 10704 10896 ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/