I think I understand. The concern I have is nothing within the closure would be attached to anything outside of the closure, except for a few persistent event listeners, so I'm unsure if V8 would flag everything as volatile and/or garbage collect a load of objects because they are only referenced by other objects within the closure. Would V8 not see the entire closure as being eligible for garbage collection?
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 10:29:45 UTC+1, Andreas Rossberg wrote: > > On 21 May 2014 06:43, Si Robertson <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Let's say someone has quite a large amount of code, possibly for a game > or > > application, and they wrapped all of that code in a closure ... > > > > (function(){ > > // all code goes here > > })() > > > > Would that cause any problems with V8 as far as optimisation and/or > garbage > > collection is concerned? > > If it is the closure environment you are worrying about, then this > will be empty (assuming this expression occurs on the toplevel). A > closure only closes over lexical or local variables, and (before ES6) > the toplevel has neither. > > Generated code might actually be better, because all outermost > variables of 'code' become local instead of polluting the global > object, which should be more efficient in both time and space. > > /Andreas > -- -- 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/d/optout.
