Yea, this seems as obvious to me as why it’s more efficient to reformat a drive partition than to delete every file that might be stored there. Or why it’s more

Yea, this seems as obvious to me as why it’s more efficient to reformat a drive partition than to delete every file that might be stored there. Or why it’s more efficient to free a whole memory arena than to free every single memory block allocated within it. If you know you’re throwing everything away, it’s more efficient to invoke a “throw it all away” action than to throw away each piece individually.