Mikhail Zakurdaev

Hello, Thank you for providing a clear description. It was easy to understand and reproduce. In short, if you only re-execute a cell (without a kernel restart), it doesn’t release...

> .... because it would not be accessible anymore once a variable is overridden. it's not like that. Even in this case you have access to the previous values of...

> ....Well, seriously, I would have expected all symbols to exist once per kernel and **the last cell to write it "wins"**.... in general it sounds nice, but this question...

thank you for your ideas! I agree that may be we can somehow improve UX/UI here. I filed [an issue](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTNB-768/Introduce-a-user-configurable-setting-or-registry-flag-that-enables-to-release-heap-space-memory-for-re-executed-cells-which) in our tracker (Kotlin Notebook) and you can vote for...