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Re:Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses 1/2 by jamal-kumar on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:42AM (#35384299)
little to no malloc and taking full advantage of what you can get away with without it is one of those tricks every programmer should know

it's how we managed to get away with doing anything at all when our PCs had like 16-32 MEGABYTES of ram in them - or less, those are generous amounts

it's why those computers can still play video

Re:Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses 1/2 by LoganDark on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:03AM (#35385178)
> it's why those computers can still play video

Meanwhile, new computers that are thousands or tens of thousands of times faster cannot play the same video.