Memory management still matters but by how much differs based on your specifications.
Are you programming for a microcontroller? For a low end VPS? For a low-volume high-turnover web app? Do you have a deadline? How many people should be able to come up to speed and contribute to your codebase?<p>The author&#x27;s example is interesting. He talks about a webserver that after optimizations can reach 1.2 million requests per second.
In reality though, your gigabit ethernet interface can&#x27;t handle that much anyway.