Message from JavaScript discussions

November 2018

— They don’t stop, but they don’t run very good anymore

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Gc continues running as normal, in fact, however the mark/sweep algorithm treats the dependency tree differently around an eval

— And also changes based on direct vs indirect eval call

— The closure leak on the other hand, that will totally block gc until the whole context is terminated

— And it will block gc for the whole subsection of the stack inside

— Eval just delays gc, but the closure leak is a true memory leak

— Hz won't be able to transpile evals?

— I think it's a good limitation if it won't

— You can do it

— But why?

— Maybe the guy wanted to use eval for some reason

— Only at runtime