Re: GNOME Summary, Oct26-Nov9

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Havoc Pennington (hp@redhat.com) wrote:
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>  2)  MemProf
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> 
> Owen released an exciting new development tool that should interest
> all developers using the Linux kernel and the GNU C library (2.0 or
> 2.1). Have a look here:
> 
>   http://people.redhat.com/~otaylor/memprof/index.html
> 
> MemProf basically does conservative garbage collection to detect
> memory leaks.  It even has a nice GUI. For the moment, threads confuse
> it a little bit, but it works great otherwise.
> 
> Commercial tools to do this cost on the order of $1000 per seat; Owen
> wrote this in a couple weeks. Go figure.
> 
> I ran an early version of MemProf on GConf and found 6 serious bugs in
> an hour or so.  All of them would have been nearly impossible to find
> without this tool.
> 
> Get MemProf; run it on all your applications, as often as possible. Do
> it now.

Oh my god! This is great!

I can't believe I write such bad code ;-)

Thanks Owen!

*applause*

Tom.
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