Valgrind 1.0.0 Released

Anonymous Lazy Boy writes "Yesterday saw the official release of Valgrind 1.0.0. Valgrind is a C/C++ programmer's dream come true: effortless memory allocation checking, uninitialized memory access, leaks etc. Purify for Linux has arrived, only better: contrary to its commercial (non-Linux) sibling, checking is performed directly on the executable, no re-linking necessary. The technology behind Valgrind is highly fascinating and explained down to the very gory details in the documentation."

Comments

Too slow to always enable

[GGardner]

One of the many great things about purify is that (IME) it only slows down your code by 10-20%, which is small enough that you can always leave it in your code. Leaving it in for unit testing, integration testing, system testing, beta testing, etc., can make your life much easier.

Valgrind, however, runs your code 20-50 times slower, which means you can't have it on all the time. This is unfortunately, for it looks like a great tool, otherwise.