Re:Rich client side web apps gone too far (2014)
by mattdeboard on Saturday March 28, 2015 @07:28PM
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Garbage collection is a function of the particular runtime, no? Which probably isn't anything to do with the language... right? I'm asking sincerely, these aren't loaded questions.
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Re:Rich client side web apps gone too far (2014)
by gingerrr on Monday March 30, 2015 @03:36AM
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while the particular effectiveness of a runtime's GC is determined by the VM, JS the language doesn't provide operators or types to represent manual memory management - so it's a pretty core feature of the language that whatever VM it runs on will use garbage collection (or at the very least transparent automatic memory management) to reclaim memory.