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erik_seaberg on Jan 21, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Memory leak proof every C program

This is like going back to malloc and free but using array indices rather than pointers, and each type has a fixed-size heap. We did it in one Microsoft service because the very first .NET releases had slow GCs.

Karellen on Jan 21, 2024 [–]

One could argue that pointers are just array indices, where the array is your whole address space, and you only get the one array for all your types.

erik_seaberg on Jan 23, 2024 | [–]

It helps that pointer-to-T is a distinct type, where (apart from Ada) index-into-array-of-T is just like any other integer.

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