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Frontend Memory Leaks: A 500-Repository Static Analysis and Five-Scenario Benchmark Study
A study analyzed 500 public React, Vue, and Angular repositories and conducted five benchmark scenarios to understand the prevalence and impact of frontend memory leaks caused by missing cleanup patterns. The static analysis found that 86% of repositories had at least one missing-cleanup pattern, with timers and event listeners being the most common offenders. Controlled benchmarks consistently showed that each unhandled pattern resulted in approximately 8 KB of retained heap growth per component mount/unmount cycle.
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