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Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #6242, comment 24


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Dec 6, 2010, 8:28:21 PM (12 years ago)
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snover
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  • Ticket #6242, comment 24

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    1 The leak happened because the attached function references the original object via a closure. This causes a circular reference that IE’s garbage collector does not know how to handle. `jQuery.noop` does not go outside its own private scope and thus is not susceptible to this issue.
     1The leak happened because the attached function references the original object via a closure. This causes a circular reference that IE’s garbage collector does not know how to handle. Dereferencing the function that generated the closure resolves the circular reference and allows GC to occur.
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    33In my testing, after several tens of thousands of XHR calls, memory usage remained flat in IE6-8 with this fix, whereas it increased by several MB/s when the leak was occurring.