Re: GNOME Summary, Oct26-Nov9

[Michael Livshin <cmm verisity com>]

Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:

> memprof sounds like it ought to be cheap enough to use much more
> often.  Indeed, now it's been thought of, it seems like such an
> obvious idea: do other tools use conservative garbage collection
> mechanisms for this purpose?

well, the great (and very under-used in free software, IMHO) Boehm
conservative collector can function as a leak detector with
appropriate build options.

http://reality.sgi.com/boehm/gc.html

--mike

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