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Comment by knorker

6 months ago

This does not seem like it solves any hard problem. It's just a 10x better alloca() with allocator integration?

Alloca would not allow you to pass data from the current scope up to a parent scope.

  • I did say 10x better alloca. I'm saying that's not good enough, and seems very narrow.

    You could do this in C++, with RAII stacked arena allocators. Though it's unclear to me from the blog post if C3 would prevent returning a pointer to memory in the top most pool. C++ probably wouldn't help you prevent that.