Marcus glanced at her screen, then did a double take. "That's not possible. The allocator monotonic clock is hardware-synchronized across all nodes."
What if they had forgotten to specify something?
The response came before she finished pressing enter: runtime library
Lena refreshed the log. The timestamp had changed. Three minutes and eleven seconds now.
"The heap is growing," Marcus said, watching the global monitor. "Not allocated. Just... present." Marcus glanced at her screen, then did a double take
Marcus reached for his phone. "I'm calling architecture."
Then it zeroed itself completely. The memory block returned to the free list, its metadata clean, its payload empty. The heap size returned to normal. The log anomaly vanished from every monitoring dashboard. Marcus glanced at her screen
"I know what the allocator is."