On May 28, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
If so, that seems like it could create unbounded memory leaks in
long-running Web applications that use MessagePorts, even if all
references to both endpoints of the MessageChannel are dropped. That
seems unacceptable to me, unless I misunderstood.
The requirement is actually indistinguishable from the UA using the
other
alternative and just having a really slow garbage collector that
only runs
at page-closing time.
So it's exactly equivalent to the old requirement, except the spec now
specifically points out that you can just leak forever instead. I
don't think that addresses the original concern at all.
Regards,
Maciej
