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Kind Sir More Memory Pls
C++ Programming Debugging
11 days ago 97.5M views 0 shares
Kind Sir More Memory Pls
Your process showing up at the OS kernel's door like Doctor Strange negotiating with Dormammu, except instead of bargaining with time loops, it's begging for another measly 100 bytes. The dramatic Marvel scene paired with such a tiny memory request is *chef's kiss*. Like yeah, let me summon all the mystical powers of the universe to... reallocate a buffer that's smaller than a tweet. The polite "Kind Sir" energy combined with the desperate realloc() call perfectly captures that moment when your program is one malloc away from either working perfectly or segfaulting into oblivion. And let's be real, you're probably doing this in a loop somewhere, making the kernel deal with your memory management sins thousands of times per second.

Possibly The Worst Way To Read A File In C
Programming C++ Algorithms Debugging
1 year ago 416.8K views 0 shares
Possibly The Worst Way To Read A File In C
This code is the programming equivalent of filling a bathtub one teaspoon at a time while expanding the bathtub after each spoon. 😱 Instead of reading the file in chunks or pre-allocating memory, this monster allocates exactly ONE byte, reads ONE character, reallocates the ENTIRE array, and repeats for EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER. The malloc/realloc combo is basically begging the memory manager to have a nervous breakdown. The performance would be so catastrophically bad that you could probably go make a sandwich between reading "Hello" and "World". It's like watching someone solve a maze by rebuilding the entire universe after each step.