Re: [PHP-I18N] PHP intl APIs - part 1

> 1) If I define a collator $coll, and then I reassign $coll to something else
> (perhaps another collator)
> is the original collator stored in $coll left in memory or will it get
> cleaned up at some point?

It's cleaned up immediately.

> 2) Should we consider any functions useful for debugging memory leaks?
> I have in mind something like collator_count() to return a count of the
> existing collators.
> I know about get_defined_vars() but I was thinking the collators might
> become separated from a variable and then be lost...

PHP has mechanisms for tracking memory leaks, so I don't think we need 
anything special in extension APIs.

Speaking of which, we  might want to use u_setMemoryFunctions (see 
http://www.icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uclean_8h.html#5dea766c5e726833400dc0ee24a2bc6a) 
to make ICU use PHP's memory function. This, however, depends on whether 
ICU allocates any persistent data (caches, etc.) with these functions.

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