[XML-SIG] DOM and Proxies

[Paul Prescod]

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
> 
> Open question: is the proxy mechanism still useful if a garbage
> collection mechanism for collecting cycles gets into 1.6?  (Neal
> Schemenauer is working on something, but it's too early to tell if
> it'll get into 1.6; perhaps the cost will be too high.)

No, if the cycle-reaper gets into 1.6 then I wouldn't bother with the
proxies. The mere fact that I've spent too much of my life thinking up
cycle-avoidance mechanisms suggests that we should give Neal's patch a
high priority (scuse the pun)! Obviously the proxy has the benefit of
not slowing down anything that doesn't use it.

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