A memory arena, also called a region, is just a large chunk of memory that exists for a limited time. You can use it to allocate smaller objects that you use for the lifetime of the arena. Objects in the arena can be either deallocated as usual or erased all at once in a process called winking out. We'll describe it later on.
Arenas have several great advantages over the usual allocations and deallocations – they increase performance because they limit the memory allocations that need to grab upstream resources. They also reduce fragmentation of memory, because any fragmentation that would happen will happen inside the arena. Once an arena's memory is released, the fragmentation is no more as well. A great idea is to create separate arenas per thread. If only a single thread uses an arena, it doesn't need to use any locking or other thread-safety mechanisms, reducing thread contention and giving you a nice boost in performance.
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