alt Hacker NewsTigerBeetle has a unique static memory allocation strategy at launch time. It’s a strategy that sidesteps a lot of memory management issues but only works for very specific use cases.
Their success with this strategy isn’t portable to most other projects. I think they really need more traditional flagship projects that generalize to typical memory management use cases. The way the conversation keeps coming back to TigerBeetle as a success story isn’t helpful to anyone trying to evaluate the memory management angle.
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marshray • yesterday at 5:19 PM
Do they really not have any kind of sub-block dynamic allocator?
Does the program handle character data? It is indeed a rare server app which never handles strings.
I would say the exact opposite, actually - Zig is a language specifically suited for TigerBeetle's all-at-once approach to memory management, and the approach more commonly used in Rust (allocate wherever and whenever) is non-idiomatic in Zig.
> only works for very specific use cases.
It's not clear to me what you mean by this.