> The idea of never free()ing and then taking advantage of that with a dumb allocator to get better performance is pretty clever. Ken Thompson's C compiler doe

> The idea of never free()ing and then taking advantage of that with a dumb allocator to get better performance is pretty clever. Ken Thompson's C compiler does this. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/compat.c http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/comp... http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/lex.c http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/lex.... (near the end) http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/macbody http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/cc/macb... (near the end)