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What is Arena allocator?

Definition 6.4 Low-Latency Software · Chapter 6 — C++ for Latency I: Memory

An arena allocator hands out consecutive pieces of one pre-allocated block by advancing an offset, and frees them all at once by resetting it; individual objects are never freed.

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