Eleven million mallocs over seven minutes of gameplay at 60 fps comes out at an average of 437 mallocs per frame (this includes "load level" and "die and reload

Eleven million mallocs over seven minutes of gameplay at 60 fps comes out at an average of 437 mallocs per frame (this includes "load level" and "die and reload", so the average during gameplay is likely even lower). The author writes "Doom 3 hits 60fps in debug and calls malloc all over the place.", but to me those stats suggest malloc-averse code.