Functions like Type::getInt32() or whatever it's called return the same heap allocated pointer each time so pointer equality can be used for value equality. Tha

Functions like Type::getInt32() or whatever it's called return the same heap allocated pointer each time so pointer equality can be used for value equality. That's a nice trick that only really works optimally if you leak the pointer, or at least don't free it until very near the end. I've seen cleaning up memory at the end of a program take 20% of the run time and that was indeed patched to just exit & leak as a result. With a flag to clean up so we could still run valgrind on it usefully.