Screencast on Diagnosing Memory Leaks in IE
via Ajaxian:
Patrick Fitzgerald posted a nice screencast explaining how he diagnosed and fixed an IE memory leak in his tabifier library. He walks through using the free tool Process Explorer to watch IE’s memory grow with each page refresh. He writes:
This screencast discusses how I diagnosed and fixed a memory leak in a JavaScript library. It’s a very simplified example, and the same techniques probably can’t be used for more complex web applications, but it might shed some light on how these memory leaks occur.
The Microsoft Developer Network has an indepth article on what causes these leaks, and you may also want to see articles by Douglas Crockford, James McParlane, jibbering.com, and Matthias Miller (who now hosts the leak detector Drip).
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