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Re:A single character code change by awayfromhomenow on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:59PM (#21937835)
no need to re-architect the program at that point, since heap pressure was reduced.

The big takeaway for me here is to learn how your target language allocates memory for new objects.

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Re:A single character code change by tlarkworthy on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:01PM (#21937865)
My take home is focus on the thing that matters, and there is always low hanging fruit when something flips from "don't care" to "matters"
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Re:A single character code change by nradov on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:02PM (#21937879)
In general this is an example of how abstractions in high level languages become increasingly leaky as production workloads grow.
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