Our main paper presents SHAPES, a language extension which offers developers fine-grained control over the placement of data in memory, whilst retaining both memory safety and object abstraction via pooling and clustering. As part of the development of SHAPES, we wanted to investigate the usefulness of the concepts SHAPES brings to the table. To that extent, we implemented five such case studies. This publication provides the corresponding code and instructions on how to run these case studies and derive the results we provide.