he computer will have to spend a considerable amount of time copying this value to this new location.</p>
<p>Therefore, many programmers prefer to avoid this heavy operation of copying the value to the new location, by accessing this value through pointers. We are going to talk more about this “moving operation” over the next sections. For now, just keep in mind that avoiding this “move operation” is one of main reasons why pointers are used in programming languages.</p>
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