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Everyone is doing memory management wrong. feat. Ryan Fleury | S2 E02

Backend Banter

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Mastering Arena Allocators

This chapter explores arena allocators as a streamlined approach to memory management in programming. It contrasts traditional techniques like malloc and free with the performance benefits of arena-style allocation, especially in high-demand environments such as game development and web servers. The discussion emphasizes the need to simplify memory allocation strategies, highlighting the advantages and challenges of implementing arenas across different programming languages.

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