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		drfugly on Nov 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taking C Seriously Because then you have to control ALL of the memory, not just the data that you're interested in optimizing. Not to mention that (at least in the JVM) the gc is pretty tweakable, and the entire team may not need to know about all of the tweaks.

mbq on Nov 3, 2011 [–]

This is precisely how it looks from this "microallocating" perspective.

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