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Discussion on: Javascript Underdogs: Part 1 - The WeakMap

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Valentin Baca

Very informative!

One potential correction:

If we lose the key, the javascript compiler can deduce that there is no way to access the thing associated with the key and it can safely remove it from the memory.

I think "compiler" should instead be "garbage collector".

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Kushan Joshi

Fixed, thanks so much for pointing that out