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- URL: https://x.com/rfleury/status/1594748428407693312
- Author: Ryan Fleury (@rfleury)
- Posted: 2022-11-21 17:43:48
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1/ @rfleury
@AllenWebster4th @MemoryArenaMain
To clarify, I don’t write in first person plural for a reason—I don’t believe in “we”, and I don’t care to enforce my preferences on others. The proof is really in the pudding. It’s not within the realm of feasibility (nor perhaps desirability) to “decide the issue” universally.
2/ @rfleury
@AllenWebster4th @MemoryArenaMain
In my opinion it is within reason to teach/convince enough people that the simplification offered by arenas is compelling, such that a growing population finds themselves improved as programmers, and decide to adopt the strategy in their own work.
3/ @rfleury
@AllenWebster4th @MemoryArenaMain
I find arenas an incredibly solid default allocation abstraction for a wide array of use cases. I don’t know what would be more convincing to others than a massive world of software built with this in mind, serving as empirical evidence of improved techniques.
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