Memory Management in V8, garbage collection and improvements

I believe most of us have seen "Javascript heap out of memory" exception somewhere. What does it really mean? Well, to answer this question we need to talk a bit about the engine that powers both the Chromium browsers and Node.js - V8, and how it manages its memory consumption. The memory model The memory space of V8 is categorised into 2 - Stack memory and Heap memory, and the Heap memeory is further divided into multiple spaces to serve different purposes. Here is an comprehensive and ...