Spatial Efficiency
Explore how to optimize memory usage in Node.js by using streams for spatial efficiency. Understand why buffered APIs can fail with large files and how streaming allows processing data in chunks to handle big files smoothly and efficiently.
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First of all, streams allow us to do things that wouldn’t be possible by buffering data and processing it all at once. For example, consider the case in which we have to read a very big file, let’s say, in the order of hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes. Clearly, using an API that returns a big buffer when the file is completely read is not a good idea. Imagine reading a few of these big files concurrently; our application would easily run out of memory. ...