>From "Javascript : The Definitive Guide - 3rd Edition, Flannagan - O'Reilly"
"Note that delete affects only property values, not objects referred to by those
properties"
also
"If you are a C++ programmer, note that the delete operator in JS in nothing like the
delete operator in C++. In JS, memory deallocation is handled automatically by garbage
collection, and you never have to worry about explicitly freeing up memory."
>From this can we establish that we cannot rely on delete to free memory reliably ???
Does this also mean that we'd have to iterate through sub-objects deleting them?
Perhaps
some kind of destroy() method ???
Pascal wrote:
> so:
>
> myLayer = new DynLayer
>
> delete myLayer
>
> destroys it completely? (or do we have to delete every object created within
> the dynlayer object ?)
>
> Pascal Bestebroer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Eytan
> > Heidingsfeld
> > Verzonden: woensdag 21 februari 2001 14:20
> > Aan: Dynapi-Dev
> > Onderwerp: [Dynapi-Dev] Continuing Freeing memory
> >
> >
> > Amazing news flash:
> > Thanx to Bradford Maness and the delete command in JS I found
> > that if you
> > delete objects(repeating objects not elements) in IE memory is freed.
> >
> > 8an
> >
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