IE memory leak

Several articles have been published about the IE memory leak. One has come to the conclusion that the leak appear when two objects from different worlds (DOM vs Javascript) refer to each other. Here is an example :

myDom = document.createElement('DIV'); //DOM world
myJs = 'foo'; //JS world
myJs.dom = myDom; //First reference
myDom.js = myJs; //Second reference, creating a cycling reference

If you have this code in your page, you will see the corresponding iexplore.exe instance in your task manager increasing memory each time you reload . Here is the leak !

I have tried two things to avoid the leak, one was successfull.
The first thing I tried was to delete the reference from the Js object to the Dom object, writing this :

myJs.dom = null;

It doesn't work! So I decided to delete the reference from the Dom object to the Js Object :

myDom.js = null; // or myJs.dom.js = null;

And that worked. No more memory leak.
In conclusion, I have made up a reference cleaner which would delete Dom reference to Js objects before the page unload. That object is part of the Util class and is defined as follow :

Util.collector = new Array();
Util.collector.register = function(object) {
  this.push(object);
}
Util.collector.empty = function() {
  for (var i=0; i < Util.collector.length; i++)
    Util.collector[i].dom.js = null;
}

each time you create a Js object that will refer to a Dom object, you register it to the collector by calling

Util.collector.register( myJs );

and somewhere in your code, you add :

window.onunload = function() { Util.collector.empty(); }