d-sharpe

Thanks on two counts, first for the quick reply and second for the detailed explanation. I see that I made an erroneous assumption about how mutable objects (environments) would be...

@wch I've been working on a R6 based package, which requires me to save the 'state' of the objects at certain points. Some of the objects are quite nested with...

@wch Thanks for the response. The example below seems to illustrate what I'm seeing. I see more _expansion_ with more functions attached to the classes and more complexity in those...

Thanks for the looking at this @wch. It seems to apply to non-functions too: ```r x 800 kB list_of_x_copy 1.6 MB ``` I wrote a set of workaround functions [pickleR](https://github.com/d-sharpe/pickleR)...

@MathieuDepetris I've encountered a similar problem before, specifically an dramatic increase in memory consumption on load. I ended up putting [pickleR](https://github.com/d-sharpe/pickleR ) together to solve my issue. Not sure if...