> So many programmers don't even consider "overhead" of data when writing things. Because they're using managed languages where the amount of overhead per obje

> So many programmers don't even consider "overhead" of data when writing things. Because they're using managed languages where the amount of overhead per object can't be reduced to zero. And also because, in exchange for that overhead, they get other benefits, like compacting garbage collection. But you don't get this in C.