std.allocator ready for some abuse

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 21:57:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> 3) // Same as above, except the freelist only applies to the
> reap.
>
> What is a reap? Is my English just bad or did 'h' get replaced
> with 'r' here a few times?

Reap = region + heap. I believe the term originates from this 
2002 paper:
http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/berger-oopsla2002.pdf

Andrei mentioned them in this 2008 talk:
http://accu.org/content/conf2008/Alexandrescu-memory-allocation.screen.pdf