@David, it will be nice to see a chapter about memory leaks in browser in your 6th version of the book.
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:49 PM, David Flanagan <da...@davidflanagan.com>wrote: > On 12/07/2010 04:18 AM, Christophe Porteneuve wrote: > >> Hey there, >> >> The core source of memory leaks in JS is circular references between the >> DOM and the JS object space. Essentially this happens when you maintain >> refs to DOM nodes from your JS *and* put refs to JS objects from the >> same closure in expando properties of these DOM nodes. >> >> > My understand is that this pattern of leaks was always IE-specific and has > been (at least mostly) fixed in IE7. (But I have not done any primary > research into the issue myself.) > > I have removed my discussion of cyclic memory leaks from the (not yet out) > 6th edition of my JavaScript book. > > David Flanagan > > > _______________________________________________ > JSMentors mailing list > JSMentors@jsmentors.com > http://jsmentors.com/mailman/listinfo/jsmentors_jsmentors.com >
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