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Memory Arenas
Discord put out an article called why we switch from go to Rust, where they basically put a screenshot of the garbage collection running every two minutes. We're like, this is not acceptable for our use case when we need people to see if things are marked as red or not all the time and not just in two minute spikes. So that's the feature. You can decide a part of the memory designated as an arena. And that arena is manually for that function, you can malloc stuff and free stuff. And the GC doesn't have to worry about it. It will improve CPU performance for memory intensive applications. If you really want to get into the nitty-gritty, just
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