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Things JavaScript Developers Should Know, Part 2 - JSJ 485

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The Va Ta, the Garbage Collection Vt Actually Has Two Types of Sweeps

Rasi asked ouactial, yes, you could actually implement a specompliant version of jarva script and not have any garbage collector at all. They intentionally created te specification in such a way as to put as little as few constraints as possible on the behavior of the garbage collectors because they are not really part of the specification. In the case of crome, or or v t, which is the java scrip, the google javascript engine, which is built into into chrom and also used in ode a, it actually has two types of sweeps. I won't go into too many details about this. But it turs out that the va tac, the the garbage collection

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