[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 53361] autorelease pools accumulate memory during automatic testing on Webkit2

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53361





--- Comment #13 from Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com>  2011-02-02 11:03:23 PST ---
> > +    [[NSApplication sharedApplication] _installAutoreleasePoolsOnCurrentThreadIfNecessary];
> 
> Do we want this on non-main run loops? What are the other WebKit2 run loops, in fact?

There's one run loop per thread. So, the question is, do we want this behavior for worker threads, and possibly database and icon database threads, too?

I think we probably do, since those threads are even more likely to receive callbacks from other libraries without an explicit user event.

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