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Bump Allocation: Up or Down?
Back in 2019, Nick Fitzgerald published always bump downwards, an article making the case that for bump allocators, bumping “down” (towards lower addresses) is better than bumping up. The biggest reasons for this are bumping up requires 3 branches vs 2 for bumping down and rounding down requires fewer instructions…
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2024
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2024 | Bump Allocation: Up or Down? by celeritascelery | 103 | 21 |
