Memory/Garbage Collection/passing-by-value or -reference?

[pavellishin]

I have a few questions about how garbage collection and memory management works in functions.

When I do something like

var banana = 1;

function multiplyBanana(banana) {
  var multiplicand = 12;
  return banana * multiplicand;
}

1. Is another unreclaimable part of memory allocated for the banana inside the function?
2. Is another unreclaimable part of memory allocated for the multiplicand inside the function?

[simap]

In your example banana and multiplicand are allocated on the stack and freed (popped) when the function exits. In Pixelblaze's language, arrays and functions are passed by reference, everything else is a primitive number and passed by value. The language is es6 in syntax, but a limited subset of functionality is supported, and all numbers are 16.16 fixed point. It is compiled to a mostly static memory model, with the exception that arrays are dynamically created, but there is no GC yet.