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The Good, the Bad, and the Leaky: jemalloc, bumpalo, and mimalloc in meilisearch

How I dove into a spooky memory leak, found it, but discovered that the actual leak was more on mimalloc's side than on meilisearch's. I used jemalloc's powerful tooling and a bit of help from an LLM to dive into this hard-to-tackle issue.