Subj : Re: Garbage collector
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Andriy Rysin <arysin@bcsii.com>
Date : Tue May 06 2003 11:52 am

is there any way to trigger JS_GC from JavaScript itself?
There's a problem of infinite memory consumption when watching dynamic 
images with JS
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203698

it seems to be still not fixed in cvs so if anyone could tell me how to 
(temporary) fix this in JS code I would really appreciate that.

Thanks,
Andriy

Brendan Eich wrote:
> Patricia Mainguet wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there any way to know if the garbage collector runs(when the run
>> time is a bit too small, for example)?
>>  
>>
> 
> See the JS_SetGCCallback and JS_SetGCCallbackRT APIs.
> 
> You should consider running the GC yourself, by calling JS_GC when you 
> know your application has likely created a bunch of garbage (e.g., when 
> a browser window is closed in Mozilla), and calling JS_MaybeGC every so 
> often (say, once every 4096 backward branches, see 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?string=MAYBE_GC_BRANCH_COUNT_MASK).
> 
> /be
> 
>> Thanks
>>
>> Patricia
>>  
>>
>

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