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0 pointstriknomeister9mo ago0 comments

As Andrei Alexandrescu famously said, "Allocator is to allocation what alligators is to allegation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U

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Author of the post here. This talk was one of the talks I watched when learning about allocators. I thought about writing a part of the post about this talk but I didn't have much time.

bitwize9mo ago

So when people retool their application to use GC do they say "See you later, allocator!"?

...I'll be here all week. Try the veal!

layer89mo ago

It’s actually without GC that you have to see the allocator again later, to free the memory.

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