We're considering phasing out the use of DataTables because it has performance problems with IE8. We know it isn't DataTables necessarily, but that IE just sucks, but I really like developing with DataTables so I'm trying to fight this. We're using v 1.9.4, but I dropped in v1.10.2, and didn't see any different in IE8's memory usage. It's still using the previous API. Would the new API help at all or is all mapped to the same new code?
The problem seems to come about on pages that need to create new instances of a data table and IE just has problem with or just can't reclaim the memory and the usage just goes up and up. Are there any initialization steps I might be missing or ways of killing a datatable no longer needed that would help IE along here that anyone has had success with?