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#3
It is a GUI app that, depending on settings, may want to fill up a large (200MB+) buffer with data generated at runtime. In pseudocode...
Code:
for (int i; i < 200MB; ++i)
  buffer[i] = fx(i);
fx() can be quite a complex function and running it 200M times can take up to a few minutes.
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