spaceinefficient
Spaceinefficient describes a property of software, data structures, or algorithms that use more memory or storage than is necessary to accomplish a task. It stands in contrast to space-efficient designs that minimize memory usage, sometimes at the expense of speed or simplicity.
Causes of spaceinefficiency include unnecessary data duplication, maintaining complete copies of data instead of streaming or
Examples commonly cited as spaceinefficient include storing both raw data and its serialized form in memory,
Reducing spaceinefficiency often involves adopting space-efficient data structures, performing streaming or lazy processing, implementing in-place updates,
See also: space complexity, memory efficiency, in-place algorithms, big-O notation.