Bump... is there any V8 dev that can confirm that one cannot truly
guarantee that GC of an object will ever occur?


O.


2009/2/24 ondras <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following scenario:
>
> - a JS class / function is defined in C++; this class represents DB
> connection.
> - I have a persistent handle to that class's instance.
> - I make the handle weak, wanting to be informed when GC collects it:
> this way, I can close the DB connection when it is no longer used.
>
> This solution works, provided that GC gets a chance to clean the
> (lost) reference. However, I want to make sure that the MakeWeak
> callback gets executed _always_ (at least when my script ends and
> Context gets deleted), because after execution ends, I don't want any
> DB connections hanging around. Is there some way to "purge" whole
> global object / context so everything gets GC'ed ?
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Ondrej Zara
>
> >
>

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