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Minja Davidović

there was actually an article recently that touched on the subject mentioned by Serhii Sakal dev.to/_codingblocks/when-is-an-ar...
I was wondering, why not just use an object instead of an array?
let's take a simple example, where you have something like this

const a = [1, 2];
a[1000] = 1000;

console.log(a);

and look at the size of a.
even with your example, the created lookup array is bigger than the given array, so you're using more memory than needed.