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From: <sv...@va...> - 2005-07-26 22:33:30
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Author: njn Date: 2005-07-26 23:33:26 +0100 (Tue, 26 Jul 2005) New Revision: 4271 Log: Update to match website description. Modified: trunk/README Modified: trunk/README =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --- trunk/README 2005-07-26 22:31:52 UTC (rev 4270) +++ trunk/README 2005-07-26 22:33:26 UTC (rev 4271) @@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ =20 Executive Summary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling x86-Linux program= s. -With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect -many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating -bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform -detailed profiling to help speed up your programs. +Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling +Linux programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can +automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding +hours of frustrating bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You = can +also perform detailed profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of yo= ur +programs. =20 -The Valgrind distribution includes five tools: two memory error +The Valgrind distribution currently includes five tools: two memory erro= r detectors, a thread error detector, a cache profiler and a heap profiler= . -Several other tools have been built with Valgrind. =20 To give you an idea of what Valgrind tools do, when a program is run under the supervision of the first memory error detector tool, all reads |