Re: Memory fragmentation?

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Daniel Brooks wrote:
>> This is basically what people mean when they talk about sorting
>> allocations by lifetime. We don't know the exact lifetimes of these
>> objects in advance (because we don't know when the user will close the
>> tab), but we know that they will be destroyed together.
> 
> No, we don't. DOM nodes and other refcounted things can outlive the tab 
> closure and teardown of the window arbitrarily. Just have some script in 
> another window referencing them.

What percentage of the time do you think we would be able to destroy 
them together?  Most of time, or am I misunderstanding how often these 
sorts of references happen?

Dan