As another commenter wrote "how do you allocate memory without an allocator?"
Even `malloc` has overhead.
> Wouldn't dynamic scope be better?
Dynamic scope would likely be heavier than what Odin has, since it'd require the language itself to keep track of this - and to an extent Odin does do this already with `context.allocator`, it just provides an escape hatch when you need something allocated in a specific way.
Then again, Odin is not a high level scripting language like Python or JavaScript - even the most bloated abstractions in Odin will run like smooth butter compared to those languages. When comparing to C/Rust/Zig, yeah fair, we'll need to bring out the benchmarks.
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As another commenter wrote "how do you allocate memory without an allocator?"
Even `malloc` has overhead.
> Wouldn't dynamic scope be better?
Dynamic scope would likely be heavier than what Odin has, since it'd require the language itself to keep track of this - and to an extent Odin does do this already with `context.allocator`, it just provides an escape hatch when you need something allocated in a specific way.
Then again, Odin is not a high level scripting language like Python or JavaScript - even the most bloated abstractions in Odin will run like smooth butter compared to those languages. When comparing to C/Rust/Zig, yeah fair, we'll need to bring out the benchmarks.