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seabass ◴[25 Jun 25 16:56 UTC] No.44379452[source]▶
With js being a garbage collected language, what is the benefit of the destroy method here and why is it necessary?
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1. charcircuit ◴[25 Jun 25 17:22 UTC] No.44379744[source]▶
The is no guarantee when it will be garbage collected. For large local models that use a lot of resources they should be unloaded as soon as possible to allow other programs on the computer to use the resources.