On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:52 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller <dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Couldn't we insist that any reference to a DOM element in JS (or at > least in JS-implemented components) must be a weak pointer-style > wrapper? I seem to remember that we have introduced something along > these lines a few years ago as a way to fight against leaks of > references to DOM by add-ons. > > On 3/20/14 12:39 AM, Kyle Huey wrote: >> Followup to dev-platform please. > > > -- > David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD > Performance Team, Mozilla
The issue is not leaking the DOM elements, it's leaking the (chrome) JS implementations themselves. Wrapper cutting actually masks these leaks by stopping them from entraining entire windows past the tests of these features. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
