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From: David Peter
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:39

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Dave Korn wrote:
> 
> David Schwartz wrote in message <3A64168B.631CD17C@webmaster.com>...
> >
> >David Peter wrote:
> >
> >> Sure, I know all about debug and production builds - I'm a software
> >> engineer. But as an SE I spend most of my time working with debug builds
> >> and tools like dmalloc, good in principal though they may be, don't
> >> really help if one's application ends up running 20 times slower than
> >> normal.
> >
> > Why? For most applications, you should be able to just start it going
> >with automation and go to sleep.
> 
>   Plenty of realtime applications have tight latencies and slowing down all
> their operations by a significant amount means that the system will behave
> in entirely different ways or fail altogether.  The usual example to quote
> at this point would be image analysis software in a missile guidance
> system...
> 
>             DaveK
> --
> They laughed at Galileo.  They laughed at Copernicus.  They laughed at
> Columbus. But remember, they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Well, the application I mainly work on isn't realtime, but it is very
graphics intensive using X/Motif. Purify and Insure show a lot of
malloc/free operations.

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