Insomnia

I am currently involved in a project to write a good-sized web application with lots of dynamic content (yes, Ajax and all that). The application was experiencing a dramatic performance degradation as the user kept using it. I knew that Internet Explorer had a well known problems with memory leaks caused by its implementation of the DOM. But this was getting ridiculous: It was leaking something like 6 Megs or RAM every 10 clicks or so.

Yesterday, the Drip IE Leak Detector saved me from many days of frustration. After loading the code and building it, I was able to pinpoint the source of the leaks (One was in the TabContainer of Dojo, the others were in the Form and DatePicker component of Tapestry 4.0.2)

Without the help of the leak detector. I would probably still be trying to find these leaks.

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