Re: A few questions about memory allocation

On 2/20/2026 10:36 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
>
> or you could replace the allocator used by Lua with a thin wrapper to 
> malloc that uses an arena for small objects.  i guess some of the many 
> "high performance" allocators do that in very sophisticated ways.

I suppose I could. What I don't like about this solution is that it 
doesn't work as an addon (as a C module). You would need to control the 
whole application flow for that (I suppose you could exchange the 
allocator function midway through, but that seems on another level of 
complexity). In C one would simply allocate an arena and return pointers 
to objects residing in it, but that would require Lua to handle small 
sized userdata differently.

~ Sewbacca

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