• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, but that doesn’t mean you should allocate a billion arrays just because the memory is managed for you. It’s still inefficient.

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      8 months ago

      You don’t need to understand the details of how memory is allocated to understand that taking up too much space is bad, and that there’s often a tradeoff between programmer time, machine execution time, and memory allocated, though.