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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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@bmcnett Right at the start of a project, add a few million clocks of time slug to your malloc() and free() calls and never tell anybody else what you did.

@bmcnett Right at the start of a project, add a few million clocks of time slug to your malloc() and free() calls and never tell anybody else what you did.

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description@bmcnett Right at the start of a project, add a few million clocks of time slug to your malloc() and free() calls and never tell anybody else what you did.

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  • URL: https://x.com/tom_forsyth/status/1738660383773376517
  • Author: Tom Forsyth (TODO: fix my heart or die) (@tom_forsyth)
  • Posted: 2023-12-23 20:38:32

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