Timeline for Isn't the use of pointer variables a memory overhead?

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Dec 17, 2015 at 22:58	history	edited	user204677	CC BY-SA 3.0	Made some minor clarifications.
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Dec 14, 2015 at 17:15	comment	added	Ben Voigt		That clarification looks good.
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Dec 14, 2015 at 17:13	comment	added	user204677		@BenVoigt Added a footnote to try to clarify that part!
Dec 14, 2015 at 17:11	comment	added	user204677		@BenVoigt I'll try to disambiguate that a bit. Of course that would be horrific if each pointer was pointing to a 32-bit chunk of memory, e.g.
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Dec 14, 2015 at 17:08	comment	added	Ben Voigt		"measly 8 megabytes" is the typical size of the entire L3 cache on a modern CPU
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Dec 14, 2015 at 16:54	history	answered	user204677	CC BY-SA 3.0