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Re:JavaScript and Node performance coding tips to make appli... by rootlocus on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:24AM (#16575248)
If you're never going to use it again, and you're never going to free it, it's a memory leak.
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Re:JavaScript and Node performance coding tips to make appli... by Sawamara on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @09:35AM (#16575944)
No, it is not. A memory leak has to grow. Without the leak part, it is just ...allocated memory.
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