Subj : Re: Newbie question. GC or memory managment.
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : J.P.
Date : Fri Aug 27 2004 12:42 pm

In my code, I have multiple threads sharing the same runtime. Each 
thread has his own contexts.

Do I need to compile the JS engine with JS_THREADSAFE defined? Do I need 
to use JS_BeginRequest and JS_EndRequest to bracket the JS API calls in 
each thread?

Thanks.

Brendan Eich wrote:

> J.P. wrote:
> 
>> Given a context, I constructed some objects, string by using 
>> JS_NewStringCopyN(), JS_NewObject() and by evaluating script, such as 
>> "$$ = new Object()".
>>
>> I assume that all these storage will be deallocated automatically 
>> after I destroy the context. Is it right?
> 
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> Do you know how Garbage Collection works?  It doesn't depend on manual 
> intervention to release storage.
> 
> /be

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