Subj : Re: Garbage collector
To   : Andriy Rysin <arysin@bcsii.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue May 06 2003 12:23 pm

Andriy Rysin wrote:

> 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 


That's a DOM bug.  I've confirmed it.  Please notice crossposting and 
followup-to: setting.

> it seems to be still not fixed in cvs


Recent bug, UNCONFIRMED till now -- you shouldn't expect it to be fixed 
so fast, especially while we are in 1.4beta freeze.

> so if anyone could tell me how to (temporary) fix this in JS code I 
> would really appreciate that. 


For everyone else following this newsgroup thread but not the bug, 
Andriy got an answer in the bug 
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203698#c2).

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