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		yeasku 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Static Allocation with Zig Preciselly because C# uses GC is common to just allocate everything in a chunk to not trigger the gc later. Aka you minimize allocations in gameplay.

badsectoracula 19 days ago [–]

This is far from common in practice and it is only applied sporadically. Something like allocating formatted strings for the HUD is IME much more common (and done in UE5/C++ too, so not even a C# forcing GC excuse).

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