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tialaramexyesterday at 5:43 PM1 replyview on HN

The usual thing for languages is to provide a global allocator. That's what C's malloc is doing for example. We're not asked to specify the allocator, it's provided by the language runtime so it's implied everywhere.

In standalone C, or Rust's no_std, there is no allocator provided, but most people aren't writing bare metal software.


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ycombinatrixyesterday at 5:57 PM

That creates problems when you need to use multiple allocators. IMO allowing an allocator to be specified is a superior design.