Hi all,

Dave Methvin was on the spot. Nulling prevObject reclaimed the memory.
That's a sneaky one, I bet lots of people get bit. Is there any real
need for prevObject?

In case anyone is interested:

http://jsbin.com/omuge#leak
http://jsbin.com/omuge

Thanks a lot Dave and Már - I'll save your plugin for the future :)

cheers
ricardo

On 1 out, 19:28, Már <[email protected]> wrote:
> > OK, here's my guess. Since the .clone() does a pushStack and selects
> > the clones, there's a reference to $el hiding in the $clone.prevObject
> > property so it won't be garbage-collected even if $el is nulled later.
>
> And for that very reason I once wrote this tiny plugin
>
>     jQuery.fn.fin = function() { return jQuery(this); };
>
> that I sneak into my command chains whenever I fear the stack is
> getting too long, and I indend to keep a reference to that jQuery
> collection for a while.
>
> --
> Már
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