Summary
As a reminder, in this chapter, we examined arena-based allocation with a concrete example (a size-based arena with a particular usage pattern) and saw we could get significant results from it, and then saw another use case with pre-allocated memory blocks from which we picked chunks where we placed objects, again seeing some benefits. These techniques showed new ways to control memory management, but in no way are they meant to represent an exhaustive discussion on the subject. To be honest, this entire book cannot be an exhaustive treatise on the subject, but it can hopefully give us ideas!
The next step in our journey will be to expand the techniques seen in this chapter and write something that is not really a garbage collector but is in some ways weaker and in some ways better: deferred reclamation memory zones. This will be our last step before we start discussing memory management in containers.
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