On: Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)

[yorwba]

Overcommit is an optimization where virtual memory that is allocated but unused is not mapped to physical memory. If you want to avoid this (for some reason), choosing not to initialize early is not going to have the intended effect.

[motorest → yorwba]

> Overcommit is an optimization where virtual memory that is allocated but unused is not mapped to physical memory.

Either you're replying without bothering to read the messages you're replying to, or you're failing to understand what is being written.

> If you want to avoid this (for some reason), choosing not to initialize early is not going to have the intended effect.

Read PP's comment.