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I think it would very help for memory leaks hunting if a user can select a class and to start logging of its objects creation and garbage collecting in a time. The results can be shown as a time graph there. In such graph a user can at the first glance recognize that e.g. number of instances is evidently ascending.
fixed in trunk
Closing old issues