NodeJS affected by Chromium bug?

[hello-smile6]

In Chromium, the following code causes a crash. Is Node affected?
alert(JSON.stringify(new Array(90000000).fill(0)))

[VoltrexKeyva]

This is possibly a V8 limitation or the runtime simply runs out of memory required enough to allocate to create an array with 90 million elements referencing to each other as filled by Array.prototype.fill(). Can't really call this a bug.

[hello-smile6]

How much RAM does the array use as a string?

[VoltrexKeyva]

The stringified array doesn't really matter in this case, as doing the same thing without stringifying causes the program to crash if there isn't enough memory to allocate. That being said, the amount of memory the construction of an array allocates depends on the amount of elements it holds; in your case, you're creating an array with 90 million elements, all referencing each other as they are filled with the built-in Array.prototype.fill() method.

[jasnell]

Also, we don't implement alert(). Some systems with limited memory will have a problem with this and likely crash with an out of memory error. Just tested with node 16 on my dev machine and nothing crashes.

[hello-smile6]

Use console.log() instead.