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Use a smarter allocator #4

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Forty-Bot opened this issue Nov 18, 2023 · 0 comments
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Use a smarter allocator #4

Forty-Bot opened this issue Nov 18, 2023 · 0 comments
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Right now we use an arena-style allocator. Every time we want to allocate memory, we bump the base pointer and return the previous value. This is extremely-simple, but it wastes memory in two ways: first, if an object doesn't fit in the current page, we lose all the unused space in that page. Second, we can't free objects. A smarter allocator could keep track of free memory and re-use it.

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