By Sean Barrett who I know from popularising single-header C libraries, and is apparently a known figure in the gaming world A fun treatment of a dilema I've c

By Sean Barrett who I know from popularising single-header C libraries, and is apparently a known figure in the gaming world A fun treatment of a dilema I've come across a few times when trying to limit excessive memory allocation. It's like an ourobouros of logic - in order to know the memory needed for a calculation, you need to calculate the calculation leading to a hypothetical sequence of calls like makeCharacterBitmapMemoryNeededMemoryNeededMemoryNeeded() makeCharacterBitmapMemoryNeededMemoryNeeded() makeCharacterBitmapMemoryNeeded() makeCharacterBitmap()