From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-09-17T23:08:12+09:00
Subject: Re: horribly impossible debugging task

Hello Ruben,


R> Sounds like the same thing valgrind does (for free). It might be
R> interesting to try valgrind on this, if it's a memory related bug. The
R> downside is that running the code through valgrind will give you a
R> slowdown with a factor 30 to 60 (from personal experience). So, not

And now you see the difference between good working (and expensive)
commercial tools and freeware tools like valgrid.

But to be honest your make valgrind worse then it is. The slowdown
should be a factor 10 to 20.


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