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nickmonadtoday at 9:42 PM0 repliesview on HN

TigerStyle is strictly concerned about dynamic allocation from the perspective of the OS.

Once you have that pool of "objects" that can be recycled throughout the lifetime of the program, you have a guarantee that actual allocation can only be interpreted in a specific way, i.e. all objects have the same size, alignment, etc so you don't have nearly the same level of concern or detail of implementation as an actual allocator in the common understanding of the word. A simple free-list gets you pretty far.