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I mean, wiki uses zone and region here as synonyms, so according to wiki that definition applies just as much. And yet:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...

Like, as a embedded developer, these concepts are used pretty much every day. And in a good chunk of those, deallocation isn't allowed at all, so you can't say that the definition is around deallocation at once.

You can also see how glibc's malloc internally creates arenas, but that's not to deallocate at once, but instead to manage different locking semantics. https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MallocInternals



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