even among performance minded folks, there's a persistent myth that malloc is "pretty fast" when in fact it's so performance hostile that big game productions ban it at link time, to eliminate the damage it causes

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• Author: bmcnett (@bmcnett)
• Posted: 2023-12-23 16:05:47

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even among performance minded folks, there’s a persistent myth that malloc is “pretty fast” when in fact it’s so performance hostile that big game productions ban it at link time, to eliminate the damage it causes

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