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JavaScript: Garbage Collection

JavaScript: Garbage Collection

What is Garbage Collection? Overview Garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory which was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced also called garbage. Garbage collection was invented by American computer scientists around 1959 to simplify manual memory

Javascript: Tasks /Macro Tasks, Micro tasks, and Nano tasks

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Javascript: Tasks /Macro Tasks, Micro tasks, and Nano tasks

Introduction Javascript is a single-threaded language, so it can only execute one operation at a time. It uses a javascript scheduler to manage long operations such as HTTP calls in order to avoid blocking the main thread. To understand this you need to know how the event loop handles tasks