top | item 37430286 (no title) r-spaghetti | 2 years ago Or delete them or set to null inside the loop? discuss order hn newest pkolaczk|2 years ago Setting to null doesn't release the memory. It only erases the reference. You still need to wait for the GC to complete. baq|2 years ago Side note: it might work in a refcount GC like CPython. That isn’t node though. (It only might because it doesn’t guarantee that memory is actually reused.)
pkolaczk|2 years ago Setting to null doesn't release the memory. It only erases the reference. You still need to wait for the GC to complete. baq|2 years ago Side note: it might work in a refcount GC like CPython. That isn’t node though. (It only might because it doesn’t guarantee that memory is actually reused.)
baq|2 years ago Side note: it might work in a refcount GC like CPython. That isn’t node though. (It only might because it doesn’t guarantee that memory is actually reused.)
pkolaczk|2 years ago
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