[OpenLayers-Users] Releasing memory

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hey,

OpenLayers unloads itself properly when the page unloads (except for
some known memory leaks). If you want to unload a map instance
manually, you should call map.destroy().

Regards,
Andreas.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Janis Elmeris
<janis.elmeris at intelligentsystems.lv> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> OpenLayers.Map has three functions that look like being used for freeing
> memory:
> destroy(), unloadDestroy(), updateSizeDestroy().
>
> Am I supposed to explicitly call them or not? From the description of
> "unloadDestroy", for example, it seems that it is already called by
> something.
>
> I'm looking something similar to Google Maps' GUnload, which is supposed to
> be run upon page unload event - is there something similar needed for
> OpenLayers?
>
> Thanks!
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