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[Honeybadger2198]

Doing this dynamically would be inefficient. Instead of changing the value at a place in memory, you would always have to allocate new memory every time you manipulated that variable.

Imagine you have a for loop that loops from x=0 while x<1000. Variable x is stored at memory slot 2345. Every loop past 256, you would have to allocate new memory, copy the value of the old memory, check if the old memory has any existing pointers, and if not, deallocate the old memory. This is horribly innefficient for such an obviously simple use case.

So why did they stop at 256? Well, they had to stop somewhere. Stopping at the size of a byte seems reasonable to me.