[Nel] Trouble with block memory allocator

[Vincent Caron]

Hello,

  I'm having a hard time with the CSTLBlockAllocator and CSTLBlockList 
classes. I can't make them compile with gcc 3.2, VC.NET (with and 
without STLport). I can't make the default stub compile either. After 
wasting a wealth of time on unreadable compiler errors, I looked more 
closely at the code. I'm suspicious about the real gain about this hack, 
and I would like to check some facts before going further into the STL 
nightmare. I'd be pleased to hear rationales and testimonies about the 
CSTLBlockAlllocator.

I wrote a simple benchmark, but I can't run it since I did not manage to 
compile the aforementioned classes. I'm curious about the results, if 
anybody with a compiling NeL tree could try it, that'd be cool :

  http://zerodeux.net/misc/nel/memory_test.zip

Unpack in code/nel/, it will create a test/memory/ path. VC.NET project 
files included, it's a basic win32 console project statically linked 
with the NeL misc library. The result is the average number of 
alloc+dealloc couples executed per second, the greater the better.