REDUCING THE VULNERABILITY LEVEL OF GARBAGE COLLECTION USING ARENA ALLOCATOR

Abstract

Memory allocation is substantially overcomplicated with commonly used self-managing background systems like: garbage-collection, smart pointers and RAII. Oftentimes these systems and memory allocation paradigms cause performance and safety issues. In most scenarios (projects) a decent alternative to said allocation paradigms can be used to avoid the performance hit that garbage-collection and smart pointers can impose on the made software, and greater control can be achieved that can help avoid possible safety risks in between prune-and-sweep clean intervals of garbage collection.

Arena allocator is a pretty appealing allocation strategy that has relatively few mentions despite all the said benefits. With very concise implementation, Arenas can be very handy and make memory management trivial while keeping full control in hands of the developer. Arenas can be widely used in almost any project that revolves around real-time systems, user oriented software or inside highly optimized systems such as compilers.