Re: ScriptProcessorNode behavior without JavsScript references

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Marcus Geelnard <mage@opera.com> wrote:

>  That sounds like a reasonable solution (or it could just disconnect
> itself?).
>

Yes, presumably you could just disconnect yourself, and that would cause
the onaudioprocess to stop being called (and thus release observability).

In any event I think that we need to clearly instruct developers to signal
> the death of ScriptProcessorNodes, or they could leak like mad (e.g. if you
> create one ScriptProcessorNode per note played in a MIDI application).
>

Yep, that's the major concern here.  I foresee LOTS of leaky SP scenarios.


> One way could be to add an explicit "active" attribute to the node or
> something (that would be hard to miss for developers).
>

But they won't be checking them - because they won't have references
anymore.  :)

-Chris