Originally Posted by
MK27
Dynamic arrays in the higher level interpreted languages -- perl, python, etc, where an array is an array, it's dynamic, it's managed for you, and that's it -- are allocated in power of two blocks. I've seen plenty of tests demonstrating these things will execute as fast as a compiled C/C++ equivalent, tho of course many many people are still in howling fantoid denial about this.
He's an economist. He doesn't need to learn about memory management. Unless you really want to write software or something, it's a waste of time.