Legacy IE-JScript circular memory leak problem being worked out.

posted by  kevyn (54)  13 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

People are already aware of IE-JScript circular memory leak problem. Let me take some time and explain in detail the reasons behind this. I will take a simple example which will demonstrate the leak. Let's say we have this script block within the HTML page.

<script>createElem = document.createElement;

function createCircRef(){    var elem = createElem("DIV");    elem.foo = new Object();    elem.foo.bar = elem;

    return elem;}

/*This big loop