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> If you don't have to write cutting-edge games or embedded software for tiny systems, why do you have to care about allocations at all? Today's systems and RAM's are so fast

What? RAM is not fast at all, the latencies have almost not improved in 20 years (compared to the improvement of other subsystems like the CPU, of course).



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