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Re:Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator by kitd on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:36AM (#33404400)
The author may be interested in Zig, where allocators are first-class components of the system.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.9.1/#Choosing-an-Allocat...

There is even an arena allocator provided (amongst others) by the std lib.

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Re:Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator by doesntmeananyth on Monday October 31, 2022 @09:41AM (#33405558)
You may also be interested in this comment thread, where the author explains his opinion on Zig's approach to allocators:

https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-all...

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Re:Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator by jcparkyn on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:05PM (#33415187)
I don't use zig, but it seems to me that functions can choose exactly which type of allocator they want to accept (just by changing the type of the allocator parameter), making his point invalid.
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