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Nans Dumortier

You are actually right, thank you for pointing out !
This is my mistake. I got confused by reading too much bad practices online 🙈
I wrote another answer here showing the memory consumption :

Yeah, thanks for your answer, I just went through some test, and must admit that this hook doesn't really solve the leak problem.
Here is a screenshot of the evidence :
a graph showing memory consumption over time, that grows

So you, Aleksandr and Xavier are right, thank you guys for pointing out!

I must say that I was mistaken when reading through this - kind of famous - lib's code. Being downloaded 17000+ times a week, I thought it would use good practices.

I'm going to update the documentation and the article to add a disclaimer about that, and in the meantime I will try to find another elegant solution.

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