Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
Read OriginalThe article details the discovery and resolution of a significant memory leak in the Ghostty terminal emulator, where usage could balloon to 37 GB. It explains the leak's root cause in the PageList memory management system and a scrollback optimization bug, providing insight into terminal internals and the debugging process. The fix is slated for the 1.3 release.
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