capnfantasic

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   by capnfantasic 10y ago

   > Is this ever an real issue, even on any embedded system in the last 20 years? Ask Cisco when they cut the Linksys routers' RAM in half a few years ago. Every byte counts. Component cost savings add up when you make a few million o
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   by capnfantasic 10y ago

   Traditionally yes. On the latest CPUs - who knows.
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   by capnfantasic 10y ago

   Of course. When I wrote that comment I asked myself should I have written "malloc" or "malloc/free" - surely one implies the other.
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   by capnfantasic 10y ago

   Fantastic until you need to malloc. You're reimplementing libc, but at least you know what's going on at every level.