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008 How-Code-Executes

The document discusses how code is executed inside a JavaScript engine, noting that JavaScript is single-threaded with one thing happening at a time, and that the stack controls the order of function calls while the heap stores allocated memory.

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008 How-Code-Executes

The document discusses how code is executed inside a JavaScript engine, noting that JavaScript is single-threaded with one thing happening at a time, and that the stack controls the order of function calls while the heap stores allocated memory.

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How Code Gets Executed

Inside the JavaScript Engine

“The thing that executes your code” The Stack controls


“which thing is
happening”
JavaScript is single-threaded: “One thing happens at a time”
Will become
important later
prompt() (Event Loop)
A
B getName()
Memory Execution
allocation D Context
greet()
Stores data in Manages your
C
your system program flow
(anonymous)
memory and (function calls
manages and
access to it Heap Stack communication)

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