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April 27, 2006

Fresh XPCOM Thinking Update

Graydon has been busy. The XPCOM garbage cycle collector lives. Huzzah!

One (half-way) down, two to go....

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Posted by brendan at April 27, 2006 5:49 PM

Comments

hello,
i am from austria, so my english is not the best.
my question :
how work this tool?
can you give me a link to see more?

Posted by: marek at May 29, 2006 6:46 AM

hello,
why nobody answers?

Posted by: marek at June 30, 2006 12:27 AM

marek: see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333078, especially https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333078#c45, which links to a nice graph showing cycles that the collector finds.

The cycle collector is not an offline tool, it's a garbage collector built into Gecko. So you'll have to study the code, or try the patch and turn on the graph visualizer as graydon describes in the bug.

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Posted by: Brendan Eich at July 14, 2006 5:54 PM