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Comment by rurban

5 days ago

Why no GC? Guaranteed memory safety would be nice

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bneb-dev  4 days ago

It was a design decision. I chose Arenas instead.

The designed arena allocation is both faster and more predictable than GC. The trade-off is that you have to think about memory regions, but you never pay a GC pause.

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