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From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Managed-Code Bloat
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:47:59 -0700
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On 6/6/2011 8:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<isk4vu$baq$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>
>> On 6/6/2011 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> In message<isjsa7$2j9$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Both SpiderMonkey and V8 are garbage-collected.
>>>
>>> Probably same here.
>>
>> That is not the case.
>
> So why have a “delete” statement, then?

JavaScript objects are basically hashmaps. The delete statement is the 
JS equivalent of map.remove.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth