Message from JavaScript discussions

February 2018

— JS Arrays are completely dynamic, they can contain elements of any time, different types at the same time, grow and shrink, etc

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But yes, they do have this problem in JS. V8 may do some magic to optimize this, but the bigger question is:
Why are you storing huge arrays in JS?

— JS is not great for CPU-heavy operations

— It's perfect for streaming, data-heavy apps, and I/O

— In JS you generally don't want or need that much data in-memory at once

— What do you mean by streaming?

— Streaming data

— Reading from disk, pushing to a socket

— Reading from a socket, pushing to another socket

— That kind of stuff

— Pumping data through the app in chunks

— Not reading everything in at once