also, he claimed that arrays with a constant & known size are stack allocated and ones without it are heap allocated
according to some random SO post, this is not true and is more just an implementation detail
like, I'd be *quite* surprised if<code>int[1'000'000'000] foo;<br></code>
were allocated on the stack
solo
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