#14711: Memleak when creating QuadraticField
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       Reporter:  jpflori                        |        Owner:
           Type:  defect                         |  davidloeffler
       Priority:  critical                       |       Status:  new
      Component:  number fields                  |    Milestone:  sage-5.12
       Keywords:  memleak, number field,         |   Resolution:
  QuadraticField                                 |    Merged in:
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Report Upstream:  N/A                            |  Work issues:
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Comment (by SimonKing):

 Replying to [comment:14 SimonKing]:
 > But if I recall correctly, there is further strong caching done for
 number fields.

 I stand corrected. There is
 `sage.rings.number_field.number_field._nf_cache`, which is a dictionary.
 But apparently it does use weak references to the values.

 However, I don't see why one shouldn't use a `WeakValueDictionary`
 instead.

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