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no need to re-architect the program at that point, since heap pressure was reduced.

The big takeaway for me here is to learn how your target language allocates memory for new objects.

My take home is focus on the thing that matters, and there is always low hanging fruit when something flips from "don't care" to "matters"

In general this is an example of how abstractions in high level languages become increasingly leaky as production workloads grow.