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FWIW I did acknowledge this in the article:

> A sufficiently smart memory allocator might achieve the same thing, especially if you allocate the whole AST up front and never add to it

> Again, a really fast malloc might be hard to compete with—but you basically can’t beat bump allocation on sheer simplicity.



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