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Re:Show HN: Crown – A flexible game engine written from scra... by moomin on Thursday June 22, 2017 @08:16AM (#14611667)
I think it reduces fragmentation in the other pools, not the string pool.
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Re:Show HN: Crown – A flexible game engine written from scra... by syrail on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:03PM (#14614467)
Bingo. This helps restrict the fragmentation from dynamic strings to one pool of memory, allowing the others to remain nicely packed, aligned, etc (whatever your ideal for them is).
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