Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by ameliaquining

1 day ago

I don't consider JavaScript's Array to count because using it as a mutable string incurs a significant amount of additional overhead, because it has to box every character and check at runtime the type of each element. This is not true of the APIs that I listed.

0 comments

ameliaquining

Reply

No comments yet

Contribute on Hacker News ↗

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities