Re: Speed suggestions (previously about laptop performace)

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

lør, 2002-08-03 kl. 18:13 skrev Sebastian Rittau:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 02:34:07PM +0100, hobbit aloss ukuu org uk wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:45:27PM +1000 or thereabouts, David T. Bath wrote:
> > > On 02-Aug-2002 Telsa wrote
> 
> > That has to be Valgrind, which just hit version 1.0. It lives at
> > http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/ I should note that, as Julian
> > pointed out, the URL doesn't mean it won't work on Gnome apps :) 
> > 
> > I am not a hacker, but I am told it is very very good indeed.
> 
> I've played around with it in the last few days, and I like it very
> much, indeed. I've found some illegal memory accesses and memory leaks
> that had slipped me with it.

I think we all owe this guy a beverage of his choice :)

> But unfortunately I found it hard to use with GNOME 1.4, and nearly
> impossible to use with GNOME 2.0, since it found a lot of positives in
> the libs. (I hope/fear it was the libs and not my code...)
> 

I've been running it against gnome-libs and fixed a few leaks. There
will be a new release of gnome-libs shortly to get that out. Feel free
to chip in if you find anything annoying in gnome-libs at least.

> I think it's a very good idea to start using Valgrind on a regular
> basis. I definately plan this for my own apps.

Definitely.

Cheers
Kjartan