Hi, > Quite interesting might be the leak pattern page at msdn: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ietechcol/ >dnwebgen/ie_leak_patterns.asp > > Does someone know of a similiar ressource for Firefox, or is finding > memory leaks here more by chance?
That link suggests (as you might have guessed before) that IE uses simple refference-counting for garbage collection. That is not a very good decission for a language like JavaScript where circular are not too exotic. I am not shure, but AFAIK the Mozilla-framework uses the sport model garbage collector, which doesn't have such a problem. If a Mozilla-browser leaks memory there are two possible reasons. One is that of course there can be bugs in the GC-implementation, and the other one can be memory-fragmentation. Christof _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
