The benefit is that you don't have to be concerned about hidden function calls. You don't get unexpected function calls or performance hits this way. If you wa

The benefit is that you don't have to be concerned about hidden function calls. You don't get unexpected function calls or performance hits this way. If you want your code to run fast, you need to ensure that you know what your program is doing and you're in control, at all times. Manual memory management enables that.