Re: [boost] Re: what happened to allocators in boost?

From: Gregory Colvin (gregory.colvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-27 12:00:26

On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 10:37 America/Denver, E. Gladyshev wrote:
>
>> "E. Gladyshev" <egladysh_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Sure he could have replaced the system allocator (I actually 
>>> suggested it too)
>>> but why would he want to do it?
>>> The standard system allocator worked just fine for the rest of his 
>>> program.
>>> Why would he want to implement a full blown memory manager.
>>
>> He would not.  He would pick an off-the-shelf memory manager such as
>> dlmalloc that has been shown to perform well in a wide variety of
>> applications.
>
> Perhaps, he did not want to distribute dlmalloc with his library.
> It doen't matter. It is all about choice.
> Is dlmalloc deterministic?

No.

http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html