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| -rw-r--r-- | src/lib/memarea/lib_memarea.dox | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/memarea/lib_memarea.dox b/src/lib/memarea/lib_memarea.dox index dbd98de5ec..f5b44f97c2 100644 --- a/src/lib/memarea/lib_memarea.dox +++ b/src/lib/memarea/lib_memarea.dox @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ /** @dir lib/memarea -@brief lib/memarea +@brief lib/memarea A fast arena-style allocator. + +This module has a fast "arena" style allocator, where memory is freed all at +once. This kind of allocation is very fast and avoids fragmentation, at the +expense of requiring all the data to be freed at the same time. We use this +for parsing and diff calculations. + **/ |