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Highlight memory leak cycles

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points to inspect. It proposes dominator analysis to identify cycles responsible for memory leaks and objects preventing large amounts of memory from being garbage-collected. Done would mean those objects or cycles are highlighted in the object-graph output.

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Description

enhancement help-needed

It would be nice to highlight the cycles that are responsible for memory leaks. It would also be nice to highlight objects that are solely preventing large amounts of memory to be gc'ed. I am thinking of a dominator analysis

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