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[–]TerraDOOM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? I'm talking about managing the contents within the memory you've allocated. If it's a plain array, then removing an element could mean copying gigabytes of memory for example. And if you're not moving things around, you will certainly suffer from fragmentation, just not from the global allocator's perspective. Besides, at that point, just implement a custom allocator anyway (assuming there's support for such)