Some people just avoid the heap all together in programming. I mean for embedded systems I guess it's understandable, limited resources and all. But in a normal environment? Eh.
@kirby in embedded its done because managing the heap is itself a nondeterministic process. since firmware tends to have a defined scope, we can just preallocate all the memory for that job, and say fuck it.
for big pc platforms.. idk. i like to avoid reference types (heap) unless i just can't get around it. linear arena allocation that wipes the arena between jobs basically can't leak memory and memory checkin/out is extremely fast.
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