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From: Bart V. A. <bar...@gm...> - 2009-06-08 11:51:58
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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Nicholas Nethercote<n.n...@gm...> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Bart Van Assche<bar...@gm...> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, <sv...@va...> wrote: >>> Author: njn >>> Date: 2009-06-03 00:20:40 +0100 (Wed, 03 Jun 2009) >>> New Revision: 10215 >>> >>> Log: >>> Add descriptions of DRD and Ptrcheck in the manual intro. Bart, Julian, >>> please change these if you don't like what I've written, and merge the >>> changes to the 3.4.X branch. >> >> Thanks for updating the introduction of the manual. Regarding DRD and >> Helgrind: any user reading the manual will wonder why there are two >> thread checking tools. I had already been considering to add a table >> to the chapter about DRD that lists the numerous small differences >> between DRD and Helgrind. I'm not sure whether the introduction is the >> right place to list these differences. > > A brief summary would be appropriate -- "slower but no false > positives" or similar (I'm not sure if that's an accurate description, > just an example). The above is a totally inaccurate description, and you already knew that. Bart. |