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Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints
Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints This is a short note to document storing data in JS’s bigint type. I tried this out in a project recently, and it’s not obviously a terrible idea, as long as you take into account all the caveats that make it only useful for very specific cases. Why This is a performance1 thing. In the project where I was exploring this, we had a large amount of objects representing configuration values. The possible configuration keys were the same, but different objects had different keys set. This approach was causing some issues:
ContentsContentsThis is a short note to document storing data in JS’s bigint type. I tried this out in a project recently, and it’s not obviously a terrible idea, as long as you take into account all the caveats that make it only useful for very specific cases. Expect to write a whole bunch of tests that basic things like getting and setting a property work.
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