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Re:Big Integers in Zig by Boulth on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:05AM (#17057836)
Zig is really interesting, and the explicit allocators is a feature I miss in many other system languages (like Rust).

Presentation by the Zig author is a good introduction to the concept https://youtu.be/Z4oYSByyRak

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Re:Big Integers in Zig by bluejekyll on Sunday May 13, 2018 @02:00PM (#17060093)
Custom allocators are coming in Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1398

While I haven’t had a need for this myself, I believe you can use that feature on nightly today.

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Re:Big Integers in Zig by Boulth on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:40PM (#17060935)
Excellent, thanks for the direct link to RFC!
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