CycleCollector/CCStatus-2007-03-16

Agenda

• Update from most recent discovery and patch to reduce leaks by peterv.
• Update from graydon on landing 368869.
• Update from jst on CC timing code.
• Update from dbaron on debugging tools.

• Discuss next steps.

Leak Numbers

peterv: Patch (Bug 374096) was landed today. Leaks dropped from 700k to 6k. Catches most of it, but there's some tuning to due.

Status of Pending CC Code in Bugzilla

• Add cycle collection to RDF datasources
• Make XPConnect traverse more JS edges
• Support cycle collection of refcounted non-xpcom objects (aka, the XBL patch)
• Make cycle collection suspect all native wrapper roots
• cycle collector shutdown dump based on known should-have-been-freed objects

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