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• mike - Jul 21 2007 | javascript, ie, debugging

  Extensive article on IE memory leaks including circular references between JavaScript objects and the DOM, as well as cicular references via closures.
• mohit - Mar 11 2006 | javascript, ie, closures, development

  not sure how exactly ie does it. but, i've been bitten a few times by the circular reference problem. i had 'a' holding on to a reference count for 'b' and vice versa.
• tomfakes - Mar 11 2006 | javascript, ie, closures

  I worked in the IE team for 18+months some years ago. I never really understood the object ref-counting system implemented by IE to try to make memory usage work. This system doesn't use garbage collection, so the memory issues are very hairy, made even worse by badly behaving apps that relied on legacy broken behavior (release an object and expect it to still be there!). All this 'Web 2.0' stuff makes it easy to find the holes in the plan that was formulated back in the late 90's
• derek - Mar 11 2006 | javascript, ie, closures

  Quoted: The following sections will discuss patterns of memory leaks and point out some common examples of each pattern. One great example of a pattern is the closure feature of JScript, while another example is the use of closures in hooking events. If you're familiar with the event hooking example, you might be able to find and fix many of your memory leaks, but other closure-related issues might go unnoticed.
• derek2 - Mar 11 2006 | imported_from_blue_dot, javascript, ie, closures, imported:del.icio.us

  Quoted: The following sections will discuss patterns of memory leaks and point out some common examples of each pattern. One great example of a pattern is the closure feature of JScript, while another example is the use of closures in hooking events.
• jh - Dec 15 2005 | AJAX, memoryleak, ie, javascript, imported:del.icio.us

  IE Memory Leaks explained