[darkpore]

I guess that depends on your definition of 'easily' - you can provide custom allocator s fairly easily. What's more problematic are things like the memory usage patterns of std::vector and std::string. Once you know how they work you can avoid the pitfalls or use custom alternatives.

[chuckcode]

Things like alignment support didn't come out in g++ until 4.8 [1] but now you could start actually do most of what the EASTL is doing aside from the access to private members

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html