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I'm trying to diagnose a memory leak. As it is used Emacs requires more
memory, an average of a several tens of MB per hour. Right now it is
using ~1GB and `memory-report' shows:

 207.8 MiB  Vectors
  83.7 MiB  Strings

I terminated the previous session after reaching ~2GB with >700MB
vectors and >300MB strings.

In case the culprit is some package, looking at those strings or vectors
could be revealing.

Is there a method for dumping or displaying those strings or vectors?