From c598485e8eec4f07029e7972c8141a22d4f44e02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cxgeorge <>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:47:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] disable dbgheap by default

---
 dtool/src/interrogatedb/config_interrogatedb.cxx | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dtool/src/interrogatedb/config_interrogatedb.cxx b/dtool/src/interrogatedb/config_interrogatedb.cxx
index 8f8d83cea9..1e007a4adf 100644
--- a/dtool/src/interrogatedb/config_interrogatedb.cxx
+++ b/dtool/src/interrogatedb/config_interrogatedb.cxx
@@ -21,11 +21,26 @@
 
 #include <dconfig.h>
 
+#if defined(WIN32_VC) && defined(_DEBUG)
+// _DEBUG assumes you are linking to msvcrt70d.dll, not msvcrt70.dll
+#define USE_WIN32_DBGHEAP
+#include <crtdbg.h>
+#endif
+
 Configure(config_interrogatedb);
 NotifyCategoryDef(interrogatedb, "");
 
 ConfigureFn(config_interrogatedb) {
   //  interrogate_request_library("types");
+
+#ifdef USE_WIN32_DBGHEAP
+  if(!config_interrogatedb.GetBool("use-win32-dbgheap", false)) {
+      // deflt disable complete heap verify every 1024 allocations (VC7 deflt).
+      // With vc7 stl small-string-optimization causing more allocs, 
+      // this can cause order-of-magnitude slowdowns in dbg builds
+      ::_CrtSetDbgFlag(0x0);
+  }
+#endif
 }
 
 const DSearchPath &