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		schneems on Aug 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three m... Allocating things on the stack is still allocating things? It's faster to mutate than to allocate?

Ono-Sendai on Aug 14, 2015 [–]

Allocating stuff on the stack is basically free. You just have to decrement the stack pointer.

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