Marcus> Here is the first big patch introducing the new allocator, called Marcus> `mc-alloc'. [...] Thank you for this patch! Marcus> I would tremendously appreciate if people give the new allocator a try Marcus> and report back (especially if things go smoothly). It builds and works for some simple-minded testing (including posting this message) under MacOS X 10.3. Is there anything in particular that I should look out for while I use it as my day-to-day binary? Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis <malcolmp(a)xemacs.org&gt;