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Gary Bernhardt

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Memory allocators divide up memory into pieces. But how can an allocator's author allocate memory to track the pieces?

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Some people claim that unit tests make type systems unnecessary: "types are just simple unit tests written for you, and simple unit tests aren't the important ones". Other people claim that type systems make unit tests unnecessary: "dynamic languages only need unit tests because they don't have type systems." What's…