IE is famous for leaking.  Also, their GC is totally decrepit, since  
circular references are not detected:

http://tinyurl.com/dkyec

An easy way to create a leak is through a closure.  I bet we have  
closures handling events on the image loader that are causing the  
leaks.  Maybe try nulling all the event handlers when a load completes?

On 2006-06-15, at 22:54 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:

> I ran the LZPIX app in IE6 with the task manager open showing the  
> amount
> of RAM allocated to the
> iexplorer.exe process. Every time I click on a thumbnail to display  
> it,
> it eats about 2 MB of RAM, which
> never is released. In Firefox, it consumes a much smaller amount,  
> maybe
> 1-200k which gets GC'd the next thumbnail I click on.
>
> I am going to try to figure out if this is the XML data load eating  
> all
> that memory, or what...
>
>
>
>
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