Memory Management & Garbage Collection

TypedArrays provide memory efficiency through contiguous fixed-size elements: 1) They use contiguous memory blocks with predictable memory layout, 2) Each element has a fixed size based on the array type (e.g., 1 byte for Uint8Array, 8 bytes for Float64Array), 3) This eliminates the overhead of boxing primitive values into objects, as happens with regular arrays, 4) Regular JavaScript arrays are highly dynamic with varying element types and sizes, requiring more metadata, 5) TypedArrays are particularly memory-efficient for numerical data, especially large datasets, 6) They enable more efficient memory access patterns and better CPU cache utilization, 7) This makes them ideal for performance-critical applications like audio processing, graphics, or scientific computing, 8) The tradeoff is reduced flexibility—they can only store a single numeric data type with a fixed representation.