It's tempting to go down the rabbit hole of getting creative with
memory management as the author does, and maybe worthwhile for
educational purposes, but has anyone here observed any noticeable
performance gain from it? My impression is that libraries like
mimalloc and tcmalloc are painstakingly optimized by specialists and
unlikely to benefit from any casual embellishments beyond using the
supported malloc and free functions for everything. What does the HN
braintrust recommend?
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