Memory Leak with an XMLHttpRequest and setInterval

Question

Here\'s some code that I run on Google Chrome 19.0.1061.1 (Official Build 125213) dev:

Answer 1

How long does this http call take? if this takes longer then 50ms (which is a very shot amount of time) then the first case will be creating more and more pending requests while then second case you are reusing the same XMLHttpRequest which may have the effect of canceling the previous call.