little to no malloc and taking full advantage of what you can get away with without it is one of those tricks every programmer should know it's how we managed

little to no malloc and taking full advantage of what you can get away with without it is one of those tricks every programmer should know it's how we managed to get away with doing anything at all when our PCs had like 16-32 MEGABYTES of ram in them - or less, those are generous amounts it's why those computers can still play video