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> If you really want an arena like behavior you could allocate a byte slice and use unsafe to cast it to literally any type.

Only if the type is not a pointer per se or does not contain any inner pointers.

Otherwise the garbage collector will bite you hard.

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Types with inner pointers add difficulty to be sure, but it’s still possible to use them with this pattern. You have to make sure of three things to do so: 1) no pointers outside of the backing memory; 2) an explicit “clear()” function that manually nulls out inner pointers in the stored object (even inner pointers to other things in the backing slice); 3) clear() is called for all such objects that were ever stored before the backing slice is dropped and before those objects are garbage collected.

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