[michaelmrose]

In 2011 gnome 3 was released with a memory leak due to a mismatch between compiled code and Javascript which saw memory allocated during animations that would be freed in no reasonable time frame. Eventually all memory in the system belongs to gnome shell.

As this is really hard to fix they fixed this by constantly running the gc in December 2018. This worked OK but didn't fix the issue for all until 2019.

Does making it broken for 8 years so usability comes 8 years late count as making it slow.