Valgrind
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What is Valgrind?
Valgrind is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling. It is commonly used to automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, helping to make programs more stable. It can also profile code to identify performance bottlenecks.
What other technologies are related to Valgrind?
Valgrind Competitor Technologies
gprof
Gprof is a performance analysis tool that, like Callgrind, profiles the execution of programs to identify performance bottlenecks, but uses statistical sampling which is a different method compared to Callgrind.
perf
Perf is a performance analysis tool for Linux that can provide similar information to Callgrind, such as CPU usage and hotspots, but it has broader system-wide profiling capabilities.
ASAN
AddressSanitizer (ASAN) is a memory error detector that, like Memcheck, detects memory safety violations (use-after-free, etc.).
CppCheck
Cppcheck is a static analysis tool that can detect some types of memory errors and potential bugs before runtime, acting as an alternative pre-runtime checker to Valgrind's runtime analysis.
Coverity
Coverity is a static analysis tool that identifies code defects, including memory safety issues and security vulnerabilities, by examining source code without executing it, similar to other static analysis tools which are alternatives to dynamic analysis tools like Valgrind.
Klocwork
Klocwork is a static analysis tool that identifies code defects, including memory safety issues and security vulnerabilities, by examining source code without executing it, similar to other static analysis tools which are alternatives to dynamic analysis tools like Valgrind.
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Valgrind Complementary Technologies
gdb
GDB is a debugger that can be used alongside Valgrind. Valgrind detects errors, while GDB helps to investigate the code at that point.
Callgrind
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Callgrind is a Valgrind tool for profiling, providing detailed call graphs and performance data.
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Which job functions commonly mention Valgrind?
Embedded Engineer
0.3% of all Embedded Engineer jobs mention Valgrind
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Research Scientist
0.2% of all Research Scientist jobs mention Valgrind
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Software Engineer
1943 Software Engineer jobs mention Valgrind
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Engineering & R&D
2855 Engineering & R&D jobs mention Valgrind
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Engineer
2660 Engineer jobs mention Valgrind
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