CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”

— std::allocator Is to Allocation what std::vector Is to Vexation -- Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — std::allocator has an inglorious past, murky present, and cheerless future. STL introduced allocators as a stop gap for the now antiquated segmented memory models of the 1990s. Their design was limited and in many ways wasn’t even aiming at helping allocation that much. Because allocators were