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Because no one can predict the future, and they don't know how many resources they will need.
by man8alexd 3mo ago
Because no one can predict the future, and they don't know how many resources they will need.
- frollogaston 3mo agoI mean they can just malloc when they need more, what am I missing? Unless this is about JVMs which might preallocate a ton for their heaps and not use it
- swappie 3mo agoApps could, yes. But it’s about 1000x slower to call the OS to allocate a new page, than to just use a pointer to preallocated space.