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For a while I’ve been wondering what it would be like to use arenas in Rust. In C and C++ I have been turning to arenas more and more as a fast alternative to heap allocation. If you have a bunch of objects that share a common lifetime, arenas offer cheaper allocation and much cheaper deallocation than the heap. The more I use this pattern, the more it feels downright wasteful to use heap allocation when an arena would do. I’ve been wanting to know how arenas would play with Rust’s lifetime se...