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Marvin Hagemeister

Some great usage of prototypes in JS! tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...

tanstack.comHow an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage | TanStack BlogTanStack Table V9 can use dramatically less memory than Table V8 in large tables because row, column, cell, and header APIs now live on shared prototypes instead of every object instance.

@glopforshort.bsky.social

interesting to describe this as a usage of prototypes, since its essentially a reimplementation of "traditional" vtable object representations

Marvin Hagemeister

Good observation! The way JS prototypes are used here is pretty analogous to traditional vtables in spirit.

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