[issue38430] Memory leak in ThreadPoolExecutor + run_in_executor

[Yury Selivanov]

Yury Selivanov <yselivanov at gmail.com> added the comment:

> We should either remove the API (not realistic dream at least for many years) or fix it.  There is no choice actually.

I don't understand. What happens if we don't await the future that run_in_executor returns? Does it get GCed eventually? Why is memory leaking?

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