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Our safety and alerting products work with geographic zones: a country, a region, a flood-warning area. A zone is a set of polygons, and those polygons decide, cell by cell, who gets alerted . That last part is what makes this a more interesting problem than it looks. This post is the write-up of a hackathon project…

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Memory – Part 4: Intersec’s custom allocators

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malloc() is extremely convenient because it is generic. It does not make any assumptions about the context of the allocation and the deallocation. Such allocators may just follow each other, or be separated by a whole job execution. They may take place in the same thread, or not… Since it is generic, each allocation…