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Frontend Performance Quiz Practice
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Frontend Performance
What does a 'memory leak' actually mean in a garbage-collected language like JavaScript?
A
The garbage collector has a bug and randomly frees memory it shouldn't
B
Memory that remains REACHABLE (so the GC correctly refuses to free it) that the application will genuinely never use again
C
Memory that was allocated but never initialized
D
A leak only refers to memory used by images
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