It reminds me of the story "The programming antihero" from an old Gamasutra article[1] "He knew from experience that it was always impossible to cut content do

It reminds me of the story "The programming antihero" from an old Gamasutra article[1] "He knew from experience that it was always impossible to cut content down to memory budgets, and that many projects had come close to failing because of it. So now, as a regular practice, he always put aside a nice block of memory to free up when it's really needed." [1]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_tricks.php?page=4 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_tr...