Use Case:
Lokalize (computer-aided translation system) uses standard KDE plugins for spell checking (in my case enchant plugin uses hunspell library)
Also i create Hunspell instance directly for stemming purposes, so this means there is two dict instances in RAM for each language (dict file)
Massif tool of valgrind report Hunspell::Hunspell() -> HashMgr::HashMgr() -> HashMgr::load_tables() -> HashMgr::add_word() allocating and keeping 12 megs of RAM in my case.
Is it possible that you add some static map that maps dict filepath to a Hunspell*?
Then a static Hunspell*-returning method may be added to Hunspell api.
P.S. i think it would be wise to protect access to internal data structures for each dict with mutexes (or at least their creation and deletion)