------- Additional Comments From pcarlini at suse dot de 2005-01-01 11:09 ------- > Yes, although you might want to revert to the 3.3 default allocator, as > the 3.4 default allocator is considerably slower for large programs.
The default 3.4 ""allocator"", actually just forwards to new/delete. Of course, there is a reason why we chose it as default: the new allocators we were working on were not ready in time for 3.4.0; the old one not yet forward ported to the new framework. The 3.4.x ABI is completely frozen, now, and we cannot change the default anymore. For the forthcoming 4.0.0, as indicated by Benjamin, we have a brand new allocator as default, optimized for MT (+ all the old possibilities) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18970
