vbscript and garbage collection
I am in the habit of setting object variables to nothing when I am done with them. Somewhere in my past, I heard that the microsoft scripting engine had in-determinant timing of their garbage collecti...
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I too was in the habit of emptying all variables at the end of a routine in VBScript, but some reading on the subject convinced me that it's not necessary in most cases. Here are a few links to articles:
http://automate101.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/understanding-script-gc/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2004/04/28/when-are-you-required-to-set-objects-to-nothing.aspx
Since reading those articles, I've toned it down a lot.
http://automate101.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/understanding-script-gc/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2004/04/28/when-are-you-required-to-set-objects-to-nothing.aspx
Since reading those articles, I've toned it down a lot.
