On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, so I probably have to stick with Persistent then. > > What I was wondering was is the value itself stored differently (stack vs > heap) depending on whether the handle is Persistent or not? Is the only > difference that Persistent is not collected?
JS values are never stored on the stack (with the C++ API anyway, unless it's an integer that fits in a SMI - but I digress.) A Handle<T> or a Local<T> is basically a pointer to an object on the JS heap. A Persistent<T> is a pointer too but it's also an artificial GC root. That's what keeps the garbage collector from collecting it - from the perspective of the garbage collector, there is always a reference to the object. -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
