[klippy]

Use static for large arrays (at least like 500 or 1000 elements) unless the function declaring them is called rarely, or if you want a variable to preserve its value between function calls.
If at any time you spend at least a few seconds thinking whether you should go with static or new, just go with new, it won't matter. People are making a fuss about this as if the difference is noticeable, and also I've seen people slamming static over almost everything in their code which is just dumb.