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Arenas also have the benefit of incredibly quick allocation as well. Malloc/new can easily get you into performance trouble just as well as free. WRT security
by vvanders 10y ago
Arenas also have the benefit of incredibly quick allocation as well. Malloc/new can easily get you into performance trouble just as well as free.
WRT security Rust is my go-to these days(they also support both typed and un-typed arenas). Much better memory safety guarantees and C ABI makes embedding in a larger application straightforward.