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28th July 2009 - Link Blog

JSONP Memory Leak. Neil Fraser advocates iterating over and deleting every property on a JSONP script DOM node after you removeChild it from the DOM, to protect against memory leaks of “in excess of 15 MB per hour”.

Posted 28th July 2009 at 12:46 pm

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