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ruby (MRI ruby, even!) has that same bug.

• getsat 15y ago
  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 15y ago
  not a bug, a known issue: interned strings aren't GC'd in python, erlang BEAM, many runtimes.