Re: MEMORY QUESTION

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From: David Peter
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:30

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Ed L Cashin wrote:
> 
> David Peter <dave.peter@eu.citrix.com> writes:
> 
> ...
> > The problem I've found with tools like ElectricFence and dmalloc is
> > that they're useless on anything but a trivial application. For a
> > real-world application they make it so fat and slow as to be
> > unusable.
> 
> Sure, because they have great features.  You normally have different
> kinds of builds:
> 
>       debugging -- the binaries contain info for the debugger
> 
>                    maybe lots of memory-checking stuff
> 
>       production - the binaries may be stripped
> 
>                    memory leaks and problems have been debugged, so no
>                    linking against dmalloc
> 
> ... if you're using autoconf you can provide a user option like
> "--enable-debug" to turn on the debugging build that is not the
> default.
> 
> --
> --Ed Cashin                     integrit file-verification system:
>   ecashin@coe.uga.edu           http://integrit.sourceforge.net/
> 
>     Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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.

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