Nicholas C. Zakas on Nostr: I've come across a few instances where people claim that JavaScript arrays have a ...
I've come across a few instances where people claim that JavaScript arrays have a performance impact when adding a variable number of elements due to memory allocations, and that JS-based linked lists are more performant. Anyone seen benchmarks for this?
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