http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51386
--- Comment #4 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> 2011-12-02 11:10:36 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Hans-Peter, can it be a memory issue? The recent changes imply that more > > memory > > is used by these data structures, and that is largely unavoidable, > > Unavoidable, really? **If** where only a memory issue would be unavoidable yes. This is a long, long, discussion which took place in various LWG ISO Meetings, about the performance of erase, which we can't summarize here. Unavoidably a C++11 conforming hashed container uses more memory that a legacy HP/SGI hash_map / hash_set. But I don't think is a memory issue, now.