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In a single-threaded context, I think 'giant array array of bytes' is still correct? Performance, not so much.

> This part of the blog didn't seem very accurate.

It was a sufficient amount of understanding to produce this allocator :-). I think that if we have beginner[0] projects posted and upvoted, we must understand that the author's understanding may be lacking some nuance.

[0] author might be a very good programmer, just not familiar with this particular area!



> author might be a very good programmer, just not familiar with this particular area

Or even, they may be familiar, but challenging their understanding or using simplifying assumptions to reduce complexity.


I brought that up for their further reading since that part seemed to be the weakest part of the post.

I think this is good work anyway.




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