How do I create a memory leak in JavaScript?

Question

I would like to understand what kind of code causes memory leaks in JavaScript and created the script below. However, when I run the script in Safari 6.0.4 on OS X the memory co

Answer 1

I tried to do something like that and got exception out of memory.

const test = (array) => {
  array.push((new Array(1000000)).fill('test'));
};

const testArray = [];

for(let i = 0; i <= 1000; i++) {
  test(testArray);
}