Subj : Re: Garbage Collection Woes
To   : Stephen Jones <Stephen@Jones-net.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu May 01 2003 07:12 pm

Stephen Jones wrote:

>One more piece of information . . . this only seems to happen to objects
>created in contexts other than the global context  . . . am I doing
>something wrong when executing GC? This is the code I am using . . .
>
> while( ( theCurrentContext = JS_ContextIterator( m_JSRunTimePtr,
>&theContextIterator ) ) != NULL )
> {
>    JS_GC( theCurrentContext );
> }
>
>Is the "live-thing" graph different for different contexts?
>  
>

No.

Therefore you don't need to call the GC more than once per runtime, 
using any context created in that runtime.

You shouldn't add a bunch of JS_AddNamedRoot calls without knowing why 
you need each one.  Remove all that you don't believe you need.

Make sure you aren't passing object pointers or jsvals by value to 
JS_Add*Root.  You have to pass the address of a JSObject* or jsval to 
register a root.

/be

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