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John Carmack on mutable variables

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498 points azhenley | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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xd1936 ◴[31 Oct 25 13:06 UTC] No.45771560[source]▶
Wouldn't this allocate wasteful amounts of RAM unnecessarily for every step in a calculation?
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1. beeflet ◴[31 Oct 25 13:52 UTC] No.45771989[source]▶
not if it gets optimized out