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Memory leak patterns in JavaScript
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Plugging memory leaks in JavaScript is easy enough when you know what causes them. In this article authors Kiran Sundar and Abhijeet Bhattacharya walk you through the basics of circular references in JavaScript and explain why they can cause problems in certain browsers, especially when combined with closures. After seeing some of the common memory leak patterns you should watch out for, you'll learn a variety of easy ways to work around them.

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Most people that learn JavaScript are coming from a background in another language. This brings with it a view of how the world works that may be different from how it really works in JavaScript. For this and other reasons, JavaScript is often misunderstood. It's not entirely our fault, the language was designed to work like one thing (scheme-like), but look like another (c-like). This article will describe lexical scope and the "this" variable and how to control them rather than be controlled by them when in coding JavaScript.

Everything you ever wanted to know about scopes in Javascript. Closures are key.

Programming using blocks in Objective-C 2.0.

Scientists (Part XXVII): Getting Closure with

What ! I didn't Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) in OS X Snow Leopard would go as far as basically strapping closure on top of C / Obj-C holy crap !