On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:16 PM, K. Gadd <kg@luminance.org> wrote:
> How is this resolved to prevent observability of GC? Any source node that
> has been started lives until it stops playing, even if it is not connected
> to the graph and not retained anywhere, in order to fire the ended event at
> the appropriate time?
>
Yes, although if there are no listeners and the JS wrapper goes away then
the node can be collected safely before it ends.
That's the only solution I can think of, and it seems like that has a
> downside in that it makes it trivial to create an accidental memory leak
> where a GCable object is mysteriously not getting GC'd despite not being
> retained by user code.
>
There are already quite a few ways to do that unfortunately. Detecting
every case where an AudioNode can be safely collected is very challenging.
Rob
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