[thelist] Question about memory leaks with Javascript and Ajax
John Dowdell
jdowdell at adobe.com
Tue Mar 7 16:46:38 CST 2006
Bill Moseley wrote:
> do updates to the DOM take care of garbage collection?
Seems like it would depend on the JavaScript engine, as well as the
types of elements being modified. I don't know that the various HTML/JS
engines are cross-documented this way, but search terms like "javascript
memory garbage" pull up anecdotal observations.
The Windows Microsoft browser apparently keeps references to COM objects
in memory thorughout the browser session, and also has a different
understanding of circular references, from browsing the top list of hits
on this term.
Memory management is not in a spec, but has a big impact on amibitious
application development... anyone know of a concise guide to learning
how memory is managed in the range of current browser brands, platforms
and versions...?
jd
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