Subj : Re: Garbage collector
To   : Patricia Mainguet <patricia.mainguet@sesam-vitale.fr>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Feb 06 2003 08:37 am

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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