How GC works in javascript? As I searched in web, GC will occur based on some period and It will have reachable elements.
My doubt is, If I reload the page, What happens to global variables of previous window? will it be deallocated?
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Reloading the page should reset all Javascript state. – Robby Cornelissen Dec 05 '16 at 13:18
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1`unloading` kills everything in the current window. It will be deallocated. – Emil S. Jørgensen Dec 05 '16 at 13:18
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Possible duplicate of [What is JavaScript garbage collection?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/864516/what-is-javascript-garbage-collection) – Liam Dec 05 '16 at 13:19
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Actually my question is, memory leaks are temporary right? it ll be deallocated when current DOM unloads? – vi_gne_sh Dec 05 '16 at 13:39
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@Liam Can you reply for this?? – vi_gne_sh Dec 05 '16 at 14:50
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You can try this yourself, open dev tools in your browser and type var i=0;while(true){i++;} in the console this will pollute your memory until you refresh. After which it will be reset, just like any JS variables you create. – Tom Nijs Dec 05 '16 at 15:15