Severe JS memory leak - can someone confirm?

[Simon Hausmann]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:43:15PM +0200, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
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> Alle 09:23, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, Simon Hausmann ha scritto:
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> > I think it's unrelated to khtmlview. The JS engine in kde2 had its
> > fair share of problems with the garbage collector, as far as I know.
> > It works MUCH better in the kde3 codebase.
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> > What does everyone think about switching to QT3 and KDE3 khtml/kjs
> > as codebase?
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> There surely are problems in the JS garbage collector.
> The example code attached also leaks a lot.
> The KDE3 kjs/khtms seems to be much better (particularly the js engine)
> although it is quite a bit larger. My sample code works well in KDE3, too.
> I tried backporting just the garbage collector, but it's not easily doable,
> since the problem seem to be related to the object model of the Javascript
> engine rather than the garbage collector itself. 

Yup, I don't think backporting is worth the effort. It'd be a
nightmare to maintain.

Simon