Hello all, I'm posting here because I'm thinking about how not to leak
memory, and wondering if I am.
Suppose I have an object that is cleaned up (GC'd), and that object's
constructor (for example) ran an anonymous function that listened to a
Promise. For exampel:
```js
class Foo {
constructor() {
// ...
this.somePromise.then(() => {console.log('this will never fire if this
object is GC'd')})
}
}
```
Suppose that if this object gets collected, then it means that there is
nothing in my application that will ever be able to resolve this object's
`somePromise`.
Does the engine also garbage collect `somePromise` and the attached handler?
Now, what if `somePromise` is referenced outside of this object by some
other code waiting on yet another promise who's handler will resolve this
object's `somePromise`? Does this prevent the object from being GC'd? Or is
the object GC'd, but `somePromise` is not and the above console.log should
still fire at some point (or memory will be leaked)?
*/#!/*JoePea
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Isiah Meadows <isiahmead...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> And that's why we're waiting on the next meeting to happen with notes
> posted, so we can figure out what to do next. It's likely to get discussed,
> especially considering the current situation and pressing need for it.
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017, 13:27 Jordan Harband <ljh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Cancellable Promises proposal itself is currently withdrawn, but
>> don't forget that all of the previous discussion on cancellation in
>> promises led to that proposal.
>>
>> It would be shortsighted to pretend they don't exist, or that the spec
>> proposal won't matter forever to any other cancellation proposal, and doing
>> so won't help any alternative proposal.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey <j...@mozilla.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Cancellable promises is dead. Please don't hijack this thread discussing
>> them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> .: Jan-Ivar :.
>>
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