A Database Without Dynamic Memory Allocation

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  • tigerbeetle

    The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

    • https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/91a105875c...

    You can see things like alloc / free, memory ownership, and everything that is associated with it.

    The fact that you allocate from a startup buffer vs. a call to `mmap`/`brk` doesn't really change things.

  • zig

    General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

    • I like this idea a lot.

    Are there any other databases which do a similar thing?

    This seems like one of those things that has massive benefit if you're willing to invest in the effort + architect it like that from the start.

    (Unrelated note: I discovered last night that Zig has io_uring support and some nice wrappers implemented in "std". Which is nice for usecases like databases or networked services)

    https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/42a3b60c331cf01d1ab80eb7...

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  • bfi

    Simple brainfuck interpreter

    • I do small projects statically all the time! Writing a simple bf interpreter can be done so statically that you don't even need to store the program in its own array; program text can just be taken directly as const char*

    https://github.com/ijustlovemath/bfi

  • ESP8266_RTOS_SDK

    Latest ESP8266 SDK based on FreeRTOS, esp-idf style.

    • Imagine my disappointment after working on a statically allocated HTTP server stack to discover that even `esp_log.h` does several malloc() calls [1] per log output line... thankfully that was only on the ESP8266_RTOS_SDK, and esp-idf isn't quite as bad.

    [1] https://github.com/espressif/ESP8266_RTOS_SDK/blob/89a3f254b...

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