In 2004, Maged Michael implemented a new memory allocator and benchmarked it with Hoard and some other famous memory allocators. He stated its new memory allocator is more efficient than Hoard.<ref name=Maged2003>{{cite doi|10.1145/996841.996848}}</ref> Then Maged Michael contributed to improve Hoard's quality.<ref>See THANKS file in source code</ref>
Hoard continues to be maintained and improved, and is in use by a number of open source and commercial projects.<ref>{{Deadcite web |title=An alternative Memory Allocator for the standard glibc link|date=March2007-09-16 2012}}[|url=http://ineluttabile.it/node/6 Toffanin Mauro's blog] Commercial [[Linux distribution]]s may use '''Hoard'''|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20111007180846/http://ineluttabile.it/node/6 instead of [[GNU libc]]|archivedate=2011-10-07}}</ref><ref>[{{cite web |title=GNU Common C++ Downloading |url=http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/?title=GNU_Common_C%2B%2B&oldid=1105#Downloading_and_Documentation GNU Telephony] GNU Common C++ uses lib'''hoard'''Downloading}}</ref>
