- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 16:56:51 -0700
On May 28, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > >> If so, that seems like it could create unbounded memory leaks in >> long-running Web applications that use MessagePorts, even if all >> references to both endpoints of the MessageChannel are dropped. That >> seems unacceptable to me, unless I misunderstood. > > The requirement is actually indistinguishable from the UA using the > other > alternative and just having a really slow garbage collector that > only runs > at page-closing time. So it's exactly equivalent to the old requirement, except the spec now specifically points out that you can just leak forever instead. I don't think that addresses the original concern at all. Regards, Maciej -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090528/726f3720/attachment.htm>
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