Ajax-intensive page: reuse the same XMLHttpRequest object or create new one every time?

Question

I\'m working on some sort of online multiuser editor / coop interface, which will be doing a lot (as in, thousands) of ajax requests during one page lifetime.

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Answer 1

Create a new one when you need one. The GC will deal with the old ones once they are not needed anymore.

However, for something like a cooperative editor you might want to consider using WebSockets instead of sending requests all the time. The overhead of a small HTTP request is huge while there is almost no overhead with a WebSocket connection.