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fitzgen/bumpalo

A fast bump allocation arena for Rust observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/fitzgen/bumpalo · homepage · Rust · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

75/100

  • Activity 94
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2844
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 41
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2310 stars · 156 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

bumpalo is a fast bump allocation arena library for Rust that allocates objects by advancing a pointer through memory chunks. It enables extremely fast allocation and mass deallocation, at the cost of not invoking Drop or supporting individual object deallocation.

Use cases

  • fast arena allocation in Rust
  • allocate many short-lived objects efficiently
  • phase-oriented batch deallocation of objects
  • arena-allocated collections like Vec and String
  • reduce allocator overhead in parsers and compilers
  • allocate objects without individual free calls

When to choose

  • you allocate many objects in a phase and free them all together
  • allocation speed is a bottleneck and objects don't need Drop
  • you want arena-based collections that allocate inside a shared arena

When to avoid

  • you need to deallocate individual objects or reclaim memory mid-phase
  • your objects have Drop implementations that must run on free
  • you need general-purpose dynamic memory management

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools concurrency developer-tools performance rust cross-platform arena-allocation bump-allocator memory-management no-std performance algorithms

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
fitzgen/bumpalomain75

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