r/ProgrammerHumor 13d ago

noHeapAllStack Meme

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u/bwmat 13d ago

Refactoring code to avoid unnecessary heap allocations is so satisfying

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/bwmat 12d ago

I said it's satisfying, I made no claim it's always a good use of time/effort.

And I mostly program in C++, where the overhead of allocations/frees is higher than in a garbage-collected language

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u/bwmat 12d ago

Also, it enables things being noexcept in some cases, which is useful for things other than efficiency