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255 points rd07 | 2 comments | 20 Aug 24 07:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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BigParm ◴[20 Aug 24 09:28 UTC] No.41298338[source]▶
How does it occupy 30MB ram but 5MB disk space does it grow
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1. a-french-anon ◴[20 Aug 24 09:49 UTC] No.41298459[source]▶

  void *p = malloc(30 * 1024 * 1024);
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2. BigParm ◴[01 Sep 24 20:46 UTC] No.41420245[source]▶
Makes sense. It's intuitive when you specify a number of bytes. I have myself been allocating memory using "new" so idk how my broken brain asked such a dumbass question.