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> But the point of the arena allocator is to make allocations and deallocatins very fast... Doing it on an Arena would save a lot of computation that would be r
by morelisp 4y ago
> But the point of the arena allocator is to make allocations and deallocatins very fast... Doing it on an Arena would save a lot of computation that would be required in a typical heap allocator.
Relative to a completely naive allocator yes, but relative to any other kind of pooling (e.g. Go's internal small object pools, or a `sync.Pool`, or just a `make([]T, 1000)`) the advantage of a bump allocator is marginal without the ability to avoid the mark overhead and actually throw it all out at once.