On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:20 PM, A.M. <cis74...@gmail.com> wrote: > My understanding is that garbage collection can be done either in the idle > notification call made by the application or when some context is being > disposed of or in one of the v8 background threads. I'm not concerned about > phantom handles and the foreground message pump. > > Can somebody confirm that if (a) no script is running (i.e. not in > `v8::Script::Compile` nor in `v8::Script::Run`) and (b) no weak pointers > are set by the application, then none of the application object callbacks > will be called? > > The context for this question is that I would like to destroy application > objects set in the internal fields of v8 objects and hope that after > `v8::Script::Run` returns, I can destroy all application-allocated resources > without having to reset all v8 internal fields pointing to these objects, > regardless whether the GC cycle is about to run, or is running in another > thread or will run in the near future. > > Thanks!
The answer is "it depends." If you're not going to call into V8 at all it's _probably_ safe but most V8 APIs can kick off a GC run. Call `v8::Isolate::Dispose()` first to be safe. -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
