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emtel • today at 5:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I’m not sure how applicable this is today. It is quite hard to beat jemalloc, especially for small allocations, which it handles essentially the same way a hand coded pool or arena would anyway.


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ex-aws-dude • today at 6:00 PM

I’ve worked on game engines and what he’s describing is still very common

I don’t know about outside that world though