Scripting bug in the background?

Hi
A few weeks ago I read a post by Alan_AEDScripts about Killing windows (palettes) and that
seems to be true. I´ve been testing some scripts and I found that Functions are also keept in memory even after the function ends
This is a simple window (dialog) tester with 10 buttons.
function dummyWin(){
    var win = new Window("dialog","Dummy Window",undefined);
    for(var i = 0 ; i < 10;i++ ){
        win.add("button",undefined,"Tester");
        win.children[i].onClick = function(){win.close();}
    win.show();
dummyWin()
Before I run it After Effects memory allocated is
and after I run tester script 20 times After effects memory increases in almost 3 megs.This is more visible with windows that has more features and have to be open and close a lot of times.
It seems to be that the same thig happens with ScriptUI Panels
I have a more complex script that when a I run it it increases almost 2 megs to the memory allocated by AE every time I run it .I tried a lot things but unfortunately memory keeps increasisng
Maybe I am the only one who is experiencing this issue.if not this is serius bug that
should be solved right away.
All tests were done in AE CC. Please give it try
Sorry for my English

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