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		unchar1 on May 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fi... Wouldn't a static parse method still allocate memory for the object that it returns?

ramesh31 on May 20, 2024 [–]

> Wouldn't a static parse method still allocate memory for the object that it returns?

Yes, but you don't have the overhead of constructing URL first. The new URL.canParse method from the article covers this.

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