Object Destroy

How to destroy an object

[corvonero]

Hello,
I have this huge, time consuming, memory eating object wich I developed and I would like to destroy it completeley after use...

What I did, so far, is:

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var ob = new myObject();
ob = null;
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this looks like it's working, in the sense that right after object creatin, "ob" is in fact null...
The object is living by it's own, thou and it is still alive (can't call it from outside, by it lives in memory and cpu).

What I am asking is if it's somehow possible to destroy it with an inner function...

Of course trying
--
this = null;
--
doesn't work...

ANY help appreciated.

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Manu

[Bernard Marx]

FRom what I've read, it seems that in, Internet Explorer, memory leaks can be caused by 'islands' of orphaned circular references. This happens when one of the objects involved is a browser element or an ActiveX object.

Apparently, the memory isn't freed even by refreshing or leaving the document, but only by closing the window itself.

If you are using inner functions, it's possible that they might be the cause rather than the solution. (Shaky ground for me still though).