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Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function

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In article <1704778.3LbdHo29L0@PointedEars.de>,
 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:

> Tim Streater wrote:
> 
> >  Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
> >> Tim Streater wrote:
> >> > And each time you call your ajax function you'll get a new one.
> >> Which is not a bad thing.
> >> 
> >> > AIUI, although my knowledge of closures is a bit limited, each one will
> >> > live forever unless you explicitly dump it when you've finished with
> >> > it. By setting it to null, it'll get garbage-collected subsequently.
> > 
> > I leave that to the browser to worry about.
> 
> IOW, you are incompetent enough to not care about your users.

Fuck off.

> >> Wishful thinking.  There is no guarantee that garbage collection will
> >> commence before all browser windows are closed.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> >> >           request = null;
> >> 
> >> With regard to memory efficiency and probably even runtime efficiency, it
> >> is far better to reuse an existing XHR object once the request has been
> >> processed.  See JSX:http.js [1] for example.
> > 
> > No doubt, but I may have several such requests outstanding at any given
> > moment and have no desire to manage a set of XHR objects.
> 
> So you would rather not manage them and let them waste memory, one by one, 
> eating it up until the browser application exits, in the worst case.  Where 
> is the logic in that?

They don't waste memory, they get garbage collected. If I didn't set 
them to null they certainly would waste memory.

-- 
Tim

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nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"  --  Bill of Rights 1689

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XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-05 13:53 -0700
  Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Jim T. <x@y.z> - 2012-09-05 17:46 -0400
    Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-05 17:30 -0700
      Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Jim T. <x@y.z> - 2012-09-05 20:55 -0400
  Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Jim T. <x@y.z> - 2012-09-05 21:43 -0400
    Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Jim T. <x@y.z> - 2012-09-05 21:49 -0400
  Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 18:56 +0200
    Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-06 10:55 -0700
    Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-06 21:38 +0200
      Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-06 21:49 +0200
    Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-06 15:49 -0700
      Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-07 09:15 +0100
        Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-07 09:58 -0700
          Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-07 19:14 +0100
            Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com - 2012-09-07 13:51 -0700
              Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-08 00:52 +0200
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com - 2012-09-07 16:32 -0700
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-08 09:48 +0200
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2012-09-08 02:09 -0700
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-08 11:09 +0100
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2012-09-08 03:39 -0700
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-08 15:00 +0100
            Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-07 23:44 +0200
              Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-07 23:08 +0100
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-08 00:46 +0200
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-08 11:11 +0100
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-08 14:21 +0200
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-08 17:06 +0100
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-08 20:41 +0200
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Dr J R Stockton <reply1236@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-09-09 20:04 +0100
            Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-09-09 18:40 -0700
              Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-09-10 07:21 +0000
              Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-10 09:03 +0100
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-09-10 13:59 +0000
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-10 15:35 +0100
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-09-10 22:42 +0000
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 10:09 -0700
                Re: XHR: Passing Parameters to a ready-state-change Function Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-09-11 22:42 +0100

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