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In the context of the WWDC sessions, arrays in Swift are discussed in several ways. In the session titled "A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design," arrays are highlighted as value types, which means they are copied when assigned to another variable or passed to a function. This is part of Swift's emphasis on value types and immutability, making it easier to reason about code, especially in concurrent programming.

Additionally, the session "Explore Swift performance" delves into the memory representation of arrays. It explains that an array is a struct with a single stored property, which is a class reference or a pointer to an object. This has implications for performance, as structs, tuples, and enums use inline storage, while classes and actors use out-of-line storage.

For more detailed exploration of arrays and their performance implications, you can refer to the session Explore Swift performance (10:34) which covers memory layout and value copying.