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Not having garbage collection is a bit of a relic from times when memory and processing power where scarce. When you run stuff on your PC and the RAM doesn't instantly get freed up you don't necessarily run into problems, but in my opinion it starts to matter when you run a lot of nodes on a RaspberryPi or something equivalent with not much RAM.

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