Becoming a Top 1% Node.Js Engineer

Details of array optimization based on the actual source code of V8.

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Peter K
November 28, 2024

This week’s article is an essential lesson for every node.js Engineer. Every one of us is using arrays to store and iterate on data. But how we store the data affects the performance of the iterations.

Node.js Top 1% Engineer: Array optimizations

Arrays are one of the most widely used data structures in JavaScript, and behind the scenes, the V8 engine — the JavaScript engine used by…

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This week’s related article is all about the garbage collector. The basics of the garbage collection are essential for every node engineer. In my future newsletter publications I will share details on garbage collection triggers, the details of the scavenger algorithm, and even introducing the mark and sweep algorithm as a minor gc!

Node.js Top 1% Engineer: Garbage Collection

In this blog post, we will dig into the garbage collector in V8, examining it from the standpoint of the object. Understanding how objects…

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