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// We would expect this program to use ~1 MB of memory, however taking
// a Heap Snapshot will show that this program uses ~100 MB of memory.
// If the processed data size is increased to ~1 GB, the Chrome tab
// will crash due to running out of memory.

function randomString(length) {
  var alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
  var result = '';
  for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    result +=
        alphabet[Math.round(Math.random() * (alphabet.length - 1))];
  }
  return result;
};

var substrings = [];
var extractSubstring = function(huge_string) {
  var substring = huge_string.substr(0, 100 * 1000 /* 100 KB */);
  // Uncommenting this line will force a copy of the string and allow
  // the unused memory to be garbage collected
  // substring = (' ' + substring).slice(1);
  substrings.push(substring);
};

// Process 100 MB of data, but only keep 1 MB.
for (var i =  0; i < 10; i++) {
  console.log(10 * (i + 1) + 'MB processed');
  var huge_string = randomString(10 * 1000 * 1000 /* 10 MB */);
  extractSubstring(huge_string);
}

// Do something which will keep a reference to substrings around and
// prevent it from being garbage collected.
setInterval(function() {
  var i = Math.round(Math.random() * (substrings.length - 1));
  document.body.innerHTML = substrings[i].substr(0, 10);
}, 2000);