Referencing global variables in local scopes

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Published on 2010-05-17T08:11:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 8:20 UTC
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Hello,

I would like to know memory leak in the below mentioned code. Does JavaScript do automatic garbage collection.

var aGlobalObject = SomeGlobalObject; 
function myFunction() {
   var localVar = aGlobalObject;
}

Do I have to clear the memory as given below.

var aGlobalObject = SomeGlobalObject; 
function myFunction() {
   var localVar = aGlobalObject;
   localVar = null;// or delete localVar
}

Thanks

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