Subj : Re: JS_ARENAMETER
To   : Stephen Jones <Stephen@Jones-net.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue Aug 19 2003 11:54 pm

Stephen Jones wrote:

>I've uncovered what appears to be a consistent memnory leak in
>JS_GetStringBytes. I looked at the archives for this list and saw similar
>reports, but they weren't calling JS_ShutDown and I am. When I switched from
>JS_GetStringBytes to JS_GetStringChars, the leak went away.
>

What version of the engine sources are you using?

>I'm still hemoragging memory somewhere in SpiderMonkey, but not as bad as
>before. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look?
>

When do you run the GC?  When you think you leak via JS_GetStringBytes, 
do you see the GC collect the string associated via the 
deflated_string_cache with the bytes?

/be

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