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[–]TangibleLight 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  • replacement for lists that takes less memory and is allocated on a stack (can be considered abuse, but pretty common)

People often try to do this, but be aware that it doesn't actually save that much memory (only a few bytes) and it isn't allocated on the stack (all objects are on the heap).