Freeing slice without knowing it’s size

• pointer-utils

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  A collection of small utilities for working with pointer types in Rust.

I think you can use slice-dst which embed the size of the array in the heap allocation and returns a thin pointer

• generational-arena

  7 646 0.0 Rust

  Discontinued A safe arena allocator that allows deletion without suffering from the ABA problem by using generational indices.

If you cannot inplace construct the slice-dst on heap and your slice is too large to be copied, then I think there are two solutions: - Using Box>, this adds another level of indirection but avoids the copying - Use an arena like slotmap, slab, generational_arena or concurrent_arena to store the Box<[u8]>. It still needs heap allocation, but it allocates in chunks, thus less fragmentation and performs better.

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