# Garbage collecting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/garbage-collecting/304553>\
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**Created:** [February 9, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/garbage-collecting/304553 "2010-02-09T22:59:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlexWD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@AlexWD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AlexWD)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/garbage-collecting/304553/1 "2010-02-09T22:59:54Z")

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What’s necessary to do when removing an object to make sure there are no memory leaks? Do you have to remove all children? Or just remove all event listeners? Or both?