Comptime parsing (no allocation)

[joelreymont]

The Zig parser flattens the AST into arrays using MultiArrayList.

Is this done to avoid compile-time allocations?

I understand that there are also reasons of efficiency but is comptime allocation the main reason since comptime allocations are impossible?

[squeek502]

My understanding is that, no, that doesn’t play into it.

If you haven’t watched it, this provides the full justification:

Andrew Kelley - Practical DOD