The first production lines of code I wrote was fixing SO_LINGER on diku so that we could restart the server if someone shut down their computer without disconne

The first production lines of code I wrote was fixing SO_LINGER on diku so that we could restart the server if someone shut down their computer without disconnecting properly. Later I wrote a string intern() function for a highly modified MUD that was having memory issues. But they balked at the complexity of having to use a malloc/free replacement even after I made the arena logic dead simple :/ Also the first implementation of a Slab allocator I ever read about, by a wide margin, was in LPMud, which one of my roommates and a friend were into. I wouldn't hear that concept again, unless I brought it up, for a decade or so.