Re: Garbage collection question on Mozilla DOM

[email protected] wrote:
> I have a quick question regarding 1.9 garbage collection behavior on
> the DOM nodes. If I disconnect the top node of a subtree, will the
> whole subtree be garbage collected or do I have to disconnect each of
> the nodes in the subtree? Thanks.

Well, when an object is unreachable it will be destroyed. So once the 
top node is unreachable it will be destroyed, which most likely will 
mean that the that nodes children are unreachable and so they will in 
turn be destroyed, and so on.

Generally you shouldn't need to worry about making sure things get 
destroyed though, it should JustHappenThroughMagic(tm)

/ Jonas