Re:Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
by omnicognate on Monday October 31, 2022 @04:15PM
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I don't think you intended to create that impression, but I didn't go looking for it either. It's created by phrasing like
> In this post, I’ll be presenting an alternative to the traditional strategy of manual memory management that I’ve had success with: the arena allocator.
and
> My approach, on the other hand, is this: instead of assuming that malloc and free were the correct low-level operations, we can change the memory allocation interface...
Together with a complete absence of any reference to the history of the technique or any of the people besides you involved in its development.
It's not an accusation, but it's a clarification worth making as I genuinely think someone without knowledge of the subject could come away thinking you were presenting your own innovation.
How in the world did you get this from the article? Of course I didn't invent it, nor did I ever claim (or imply) that.