skipped a few steps there i think.

thanks for the considered reply. didn't mean to jump all the way down to electrons and sound so flippant.

my claim is that JavaScript arrays are arrays because the spec defines their behavior as such. the implementation details are absolutely interesting from a performance perspective and I was genuinely curious how an internally linked list implementation would actually work, real-world. regardless... almost every interaction I have ever had with a JS programmer has ended in "its strings all the way down".. so... I mean... yes-ish?

loved your poking of the hornets nest in this thread :-)