Description

Memory usage has been very high lately so I was trying to figure out what changed between versions and i found that if I used an older version of libgetframe the memory usage goes down significantly.

Buff Overlay Version

v11.5.9

World of Warcraft Flavor

Retail

Sterile Testing

Yes

Editing Lua Files

No

File Edited

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Frames Used

Blizzard

Lua Error

No response

Reproduction Steps

1. Use AddonUsage
2. Use new clean version of BO
3. Measure high memory with AddonUsage
4. Use everything the same except a previous version of libgetframe
5. Measure low/non spike memory with AddonUsage

Last Working Version

v11.4.3

Screenshots

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This looks to be a tradeoff that LibGetFrame is making by using a coroutine. Instead of finishing executing immediately with whatever data is has, it takes a few frames and stores info in a temporary cache until complete. This is probably the memory spikes you're seeing.

I'll look into it a bit more thoroughly, but my initial reaction is that you can safely ignore this unless the memory isn't being collected by the garbage collector and just keeps increasing infinitely.

It should, overall, actually be a (minor) performance gain despite some scary looking memory numbers.