"I think the difference is that allocations in C++ tend to be a lot more obvious since almost all of them are pretty explicit." Once you start using standard li

"I think the difference is that allocations in C++ tend to be a lot more obvious since almost all of them are pretty explicit." Once you start using standard library classes, even the basic ones like std::string or std::vector, they are not. There are lots of allocations/deallocations happening below, and they tend to be slower than in Java.