Handling memory-leak hazards
JavaScript manages its memory using a technique known as garbage collection. This is in contrast to low-level languages such as C, which require programmers to explicitly reserve blocks of memory and free them when they are no longer being used. Other languages such as Objective-C assist the programmer by implementing a reference-counting system, which allows the user to note how many pieces of the program are using a particular piece of memory so it can be cleaned up when no longer used. JavaScript is a high-level language, on the other hand, and generally takes care of this bookkeeping behind the scenes.
Whenever a new memory-resident item such as an object or function comes into being in JavaScript code, a chunk ...
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