[triknomeister]

As Andrei Alexandrescu famously said, "Allocator is to allocation what alligators is to allegation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U

[gilgamesh3]

Author of the post here. This talk was one of the talks I watched when learning about allocators. I thought about writing a part of the post about this talk but I didn't have much time.

[bitwize]

So when people retool their application to use GC do they say "See you later, allocator!"?

...I'll be here all week. Try the veal!

[layer8]

It’s actually without GC that you have to see the allocator again later, to free the memory.