[Bug 25302] Blob objects should have a keepalive list of objects

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25302

--- Comment #10 from Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> ---
(In reply to Arun from comment #9)
> The biggest "non spec" problem is determining a sufficient cue to GC a
> closed Blob, since if some operations work (but read doesn't), then they may
> still need to be around. But close still helps with memory management,
> because a read operation won't transfer bytes to memory on closure.

It seems like GC should be unchanged.  Closing a blob may delete its data
(whether it's on disk or in memory), but it doesn't reduce the lifetime of the
Blob container itself.

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Received on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 00:06:29 UTC