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Garbage collection is disabled. How is this then relevant to any real world usage?

He's not running with GC permanently disabled, he's only disabled the automatic GC because of the huge overhead required (claiming 1-second pauses every few seconds). He also mentions it's trivial to enable manual GC and run that via setInterval/setTimeout/what-have-you.

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