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But one is a "malloc allocation" and the other is a special "java allocation".

The two are apples and oranges and it makes no sense to compare them -- the latter is severalfold cheaper. Of course this comes at a price (read/write barriers, complex runtime, etc).

> The context of this subthread is just to explain why someone who has Java experience might be prone to overcorrection when it comes to avoiding heap allocations

That's what I don't really understand: if anything, someone with Java experience should be prone to avoid heap allocation in something like Rust as it is more expensive on almost every other platform. This is what I'm talking about, and apparently I wasn't clear.