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JavaScript garbage collection and closures

GC within a function doesn't work like I expected

Posted 30 July 2024 Me, Surma, and Jason were hacking on a thing, and discovered that garbage collection within a function doesn't quite work like we expected. In this case, the engine knows it doesn't need to retain bigArrayBuffer beyond the initial execution of the function, as none of the future-callables access it. I thought engines would be smarter, and GC bigArrayBuffer since it's no longer referenceable, but that isn't the case.

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