Mastodawn

"A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs" on the frontpage of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520807

Oh sounds nice and lightweight, good to have more allocator options

Oh wait this is 10k lines long and one commit and this person's first project

Oh look so many parentheses it makes me, a lisper, feel overwhelmed https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/master/spaces.c#L4713

So tired of bumping into slop everywhere

A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs | Hacker News

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Trammell Hudson 16h ago

@cwebber you can "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" allocation failures. https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L1040

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Trammell Hudson 16h ago

@cwebber did you know that if you wrap if statements with double curly braces they get extra special secret powers? https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L1649

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Geoff Coffey

@th @cwebber Haha this is giving me flashbacks to my job in 1999 where the company maintained their own windows terminal. Why? Because they liked the row of buttons. That’s what they told me anyway. Reading its code was like peering into the ancient frustrations of a once-junior engineer.

flush();
flush(); // just in case

flush();
flush();
flush(); // this one worked