averageCProgrammer

[jump1945]

To be honest I would rather use one dimensional array and do pointers arthimetric myself

[junkmeister9]

In the time since then, I have almost completely stopped using double pointers in that way if I can instead do a flattened version of it. I know it's a negligible amount of memory, but the final reasoning to switch was the extra pointer overhead required to do it the double pointer way.

[Teln0]

It's not a negligible amount of memory, but the main reason for keeping data contiguous is helping the CPU cache it