memory management and the standard library

[James Blachly]

On 3/16/19 5:17 PM, Olivier FAURE wrote:
> Anyway, it would be pretty nice if there were a standardized way to tell 
> a function how it should allocate its memory; it would allow some nice 
> strategies like "I know that I'm going to discard most of what this 
> function allocates, so just put in in a continuous buffer; then 
> deep-copy the relevant data to GC memory, and throw the rest away" (eg 
> in a parser).

Wow, that is a really fascinating idea ...