Chris Wellons 10/16/2025

Speculations on arenas and non-trivial destructors

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The article details a technical speculation on enhancing C++ arena allocators to safely support objects with non-trivial destructors, such as those managing file handles or sockets. It proposes a small modification to an existing arena implementation, adding minimal overhead for such objects while preserving automatic, scope-based deallocation and exception safety. The author provides code examples and discusses the considerations of applying these techniques in real-world C++ software.

Speculations on arenas and non-trivial destructors

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