Memory allocators divide up memory into pieces. But how can an allocator's author allocate memory to track the pieces?
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Last week, I released base , a universal Base class for Ruby. Inheriting from it gives your class every instance method, class method, and constant from every module and class in the system. In a Rails app, it results in: