Schlueterica

Memory Leaks.
What are they? How do they happen? What can be done about them?
This is a great question, and a topic that has a lot of mysticism surrounding it. Like most Javascript issues, there’s been a lot of very bad “authoritative” suggestions.
If you are a webdev interviewing at Yahoo!, and I’m in […]

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Because Javascript is a lambda-based language that’s designed to be compiled and run within a browser, it has a few unique architectural features that differentiate it from its more traditional C-style cousins. In particular, there’s no sleep function in Javascript.

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