[klippy]

Originally Posted by HamletEagle Step 1: new array[1000] in prethink Step 2: enjoy.

The posted specifically wrote "new var" so I assumed it's a single cell.

Also even with 1000 you won't notice any difference, a memset for 4KB of memory takes no time. I feel like people here are often underestimating Pawn. That's why we use Pawn over C - because simplicity is worth the loss in performance.
By the way I don't say you should use new instead of static in that case, but I see people going crazy about some stuff regarding performance here.

[HamletEagle]

Originally Posted by KliPPy The posted specifically wrote "new var" so I assumed it's a single cell. Also even with 1000 you won't notice any difference, a memset for 4KB of memory takes no time. I feel like people here are often underestimating Pawn. That's why we use Pawn over C - because simplicity is worth the loss in performance. By the way I don't say you should use new instead of static in that case, but I see people going crazy about some stuff regarding performance here.

I'm not necessarily talking about performance, it's more about learning how to do things the proper way. If you get into the habit of not caring how much memory you allocate, or how much resources in general the code is using it will lead at some point to very bad things.

To be clear, I'm not talking about micro optimizations, I'm just advocating that things should be done in the proper way. Just because in this specific case nothing bad happened doesn't mean it won't ever happen.

[fysiks]

Originally Posted by Syturi0 And not a single one explains it properly.

You need to try harder. 30 seconds got me to this, this, and this.

P.S. There were several more, several of them linked to one of these.
P.P.S. If you are curious, I searched for the term "static" (actually searched "new static" but it filtered out "new") in titles only in the Scripting Help section. This led me to several threads that specifically asked about static vs new.