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Speculations on arenas and non-trivial destructors


gram.com/blog/2025/10/16/ As I continue to reflect on arenas and lifetimes in C++, I realized that dealing with destructors is not so onerous. In fact, it does not even impact my established arena usage! That is, implicit RAII-style deallocation at scope termination, which works even in plain old C.

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