Pool-Based Allocation In the previous article, we looked at the stack allocator, which was the natural evolution of the linear/arena allocator. In this article, I will cover the fixed-sized pool allocator. A pool allocator is a bit different from the previous allocation strategies that I have covered. A pool splits the supplied backing buffer into chunks of equal size and keeps track of which of the chunks are free. When an allocation is wanted, a free chunk is given. When a chunk is wanted t...
