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> So first thought was you didn't read the docs, but docs do not clearly state that behavoour that is ugly (: Yep, neither the name nor what little documentati
by masklinn 4y ago
> So first thought was you didn't read the docs, but docs do not clearly state that behavoour that is ugly (:
Yep, neither the name nor what little documentation there is a are really helpful, and that looks to be a long-standing issue (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3049 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3049).
Seems to me like this allocator should be renamed something like "FixedBufferBumpAllocator", which:
- leaves room for other fixed-buffer allocators (e.g. bitmap, slabs)
- spell out that there's something of note about the allocator, whose drawbacks the developer either would already be aware of or would be able to look up easily