Rust Allocators Working Group

This WG aims to:

• Define traits and other APIs for memory allocators, with the unstable std::alloc::Allocator trait as a starting point.

• Make collections such as Vec<T> able to use any allocator, most likely through an additional type parameter.

Discussion has historically happened in (at least) RFC #1398, tracking issue #32838, and tracking issue #42774. However individual GitHub threads become hard to navigate as they get longer. This repository’s issue tracker allows discussing and resolving various topics separately.

Getting involved

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For lower-latency discussion, we have the t-libs/wg-allocators stream on Zulip.

To try out different proposals, Tim has created a crate at TimDiekmann/alloc-wg. For more information on this consult the readme.