Re: Node lifetime question

But in that case, A and B both have "playing" references as per the
Lifetime section of the spec, so JS references are irrelevant.

So here is an improved and hopefully more troubling statement of the
question:

Let's say that osc A is modulating the frequency of osc B, but that B
reached its stop time (and A has no stop time). Would we keep B alive
anyway, because retained node A is modulating it, in spite of the fact that
B can only produce silence?

Example:
  var oscA = new OscillatorNode(...);
  var oscB = new OscillatorNode(...);
  oscA.connect(oscB.frequency);
  oscB.connect(ctx.destination);
  oscA.start();
  oscB.start();
  oscB.stop(ctx.currentTime + 1);
  oscA = oscB = null;


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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Raymond Toy <rtoy@google.com> wrote:

> I think it should.  If A and B are both oscillators and A is connected to,
> say, B.frequency, I expect to hear the modulated B even if A and B have no
> Javascript references to them.
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:
>
>> I sat down to work on https://github.com/WebAudio/we
>> b-audio-api/issues/944 and discovered a question.
>>
>> So: we already know (I think) that when AudioNode A's output is connected
>> to AudioNode B's input, then A has a "connection reference" to B. Thus, if
>> A is retained, B is retained too.
>>
>> But what about the case where AudioNode A is connected to an AudioParam
>> exposed by AudioNode B? Does A keep B alive in this case?
>>
>> .            .       .    .  . ...Joe
>>
>>
>