he's saying that allocating an array with new has worse performance because it stores the length of the array for when it later de-allocates it
and like.. no?
the performance is worse because that's a pointer and not on the stack....
*anything* that's dynamically allocated has a similar datastructure held by the memory allocator
solo
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