> That very thing can easily happen in the real world. Only if badly designed. That is why it is contrived! > While that may seem contrived, consider a vector

> That very thing can easily happen in the real world. Only if badly designed. That is why it is contrived! > While that may seem contrived, consider a vector of 1 million strings, something that's not too uncommon A program dealing with a million elements of any kind should not be performing naive allocations to begin with. > we do deallocation trickery in the real world Skipping deallocations is an optimization, not a design pattern. In other words, the code needs to keep the ability to perform the deallocation for debugging, testing, usage as a library, etc.