Are there any drawbacks to using anonymous functions in JavaScript? E.g. memory use?

Question

At some point in the past, I read something that gave me the idea that anonymous functions in JavaScript can use up a surprising amount of memory (because they carry th

Answer 1

This is true, due to closures that are created. as a general rule the biggest issue with the practice is performance concerns with IE (especially older versions of IE), which has a terrible track record of dealing with these properly.