>>> It isn't. The problem is that if say we assume heap allocation is twice as
>>> efficient as static worst case 
>> You can assume whatever you like, the point is: how can you be sure?
> 
> Because I wrote the program that makes the allocations and I understand how
> it works. 
> 
> For a current project I am working on I know that if I statically allocated
> everything that could exist on the heap it would take around 10 times more
> memory than the heap will ever use while it is running.

If you feel sure about your analysis (sure enough to sit on en electric 
chair connected to the 'out of memory' alarm)... And note that it is not 
just about memory use, but also about fragmentation.

My experience is that whenever I was *that* sure that malloc/free would 
work it was because the problem could be reformulated to use array elements.

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