This is an introduction to data structure flattening, a special case of arena allocation that is a good fit for programming language implementations. We build a simple interpreter twice, the normal way and the flat way, and show that some fairly mechanical…

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Hello there, I'm a human with way too many interests.

I made a small string library in C. You can use it, it's open source. It's very basic. Here I explain how and why I did this.

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