Subj : Re: JS_GetArrayLength() crashing (garbage collection issue)
To   : sebastien maraux
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 05:58 pm

sebastien maraux wrote:

> Moreover, I also store doubles and strings as arrays in the same way
> (attached private data containing vrml field). In this case, I cannot
> use parent relationship to insure correct memory management, can I ?


You need to study garbage collection more. I don't think it will do 
either of us any good for me to answer questions one by one here.  With 
garbage collection, manual deallocation is never required, and garbage 
may point to live things, but so long as live things do not point to the 
garbage, it will be collected.

If your parent links to children through private data (not through 
object slots, i.e., the normal property storage mechanism), then you 
might use JSClass.mark.

/be

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