From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Nov 13 05:35:49 2004
Subject: globally overloading new
From: "Paul Thomas" <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:35:44 +0100

John,

I have had a response from the gcc maintainers concerning the slowness of
new/delete with gcc-3.3 onwards.  The problem is indeed sjlj and bypassing
std::bad_alloc effects a very considerable speed-up to new.  I thought to
give it a whirl with octave by globally overloading new with the test
version they have sent me.  Do you have a suggestion as to where best this
should be inserted so as to effect the global overload from one place?

Paul T