JavaScript WeakMap continues to reference gc'ed objects

Question

I experience weak JavaScript slides by skipping this code in the Google Chrome Developer Console, working with -js-flags = "- expose-gc", I don’t understand why the weak map has a link to ab if a gc'ed.

var a = {listener: function(){ console.log('A') }}
a.b = {listener: function(){ console.log('B') }}

var map = new WeakMap()

map.set(a.b, [])
map.set(a, [a.b.listener])

console.log(map) // has both a and a.b

gc()
console.log(map) // still have both a and a.b

a = undefined
gc()
console.log(map) // only have a.b: why does still have a reference to a.b? Should'nt be erased?

Answer 1

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const wset = new WeakSet();

// top level static var, should show up in `console.log(wset)` after a run
let arr = [1];
wset.add(arr);

function test() {
  let obj = {a:1}; //stack var, should get GCed
  wset.add(obj);
}

test();

//if we wanted to get rid of `arr` in `wset`, we could explicitly de-reference it
//arr = null;

// when run with devtools console open, `wset` always holds onto `obj`
// when devtools are closed and then opened after, `wset` has the `arr` entry,
// but not the `obj` entry, as expected
console.log(wset);

, Chrome dev , , :)