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by RandomBK 4029 days ago
That may be what the API requires, but is it actually implemented as a physical move/copy of memory? It sounds like they can just make the array _appear_ to be cleared, while keeping it in place in memory.
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The way I understand it is that they usually just move the pointer to the ArrayBuffer's underlying data store. No block copy occurs.