Slab allocator is a misnomer #124

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abyrd opened this issue May 17, 2014 · 0 comments

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abyrd commented May 17, 2014

What I called a slab allocator is actually more of a stack allocator or arena allocator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_allocation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_allocation

Obstacks do provide a standard way to do similar things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstack

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