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Re:Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies by Joker_vD on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:22AM (#28072686)
So basically, your use case is the extreme variant of the one described in Appel's "Garbage collection can be faster than stack allocation" paper.
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Re:Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies by Const-me on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:57AM (#28073798)
Not sure it deserves to be called garbage collector, too simple.

The approach is pretty close to arena allocation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management... The only twist, with modern 64-bit processors there’s no need for linked lists or multiple blocks, can instead add new physical pages into pre-allocated address space.

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