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- From: Kardash Anatoly <anatoly@missinglink.co.il>
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- Subject: Re: Insure++ vs. Purify
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:05:41 -0800
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- Sergei Sokolov wrote:
- >
- > Hi folks,
- > my company is contemplating buying a memory debugging tool, and the choice
- > came down to Insure++ vs. Purify. I did an evaluation of both, and came to
- > like Insure++ better, even though Purify seems to be a bit easier to use.
- > I would like to hear (comparative) opinions on both tools.
- >
- > Don't forget to e-mail me your post. I do not read news very often, and thus
- > may miss some valuable replies.
- >
- > Thanks in advance.
- >
- > Sergei Sokolov
- > ASC, Inc.
- > sokolov@ascinc.com
-
- Well, I also did an evaluation of both of them (about 2 years ago though).
- My evaluation process included Sentinel (AIB's product) also. My opinion
- was: if you have to debug some separate algorithm or lightweight program,
- then Insure++ is almost ideal; but when you are coming into real world
- with really big programs performing a lot of memory operations and
- consisting of a lot of source code, then you get terrible perfomance using
- the Insure++. E.g. our main process compiled with Insure++ was starting up
- a couple of hours. The second place is taken by Purify. It works much
- faster but gives you significantly less functionality. But the weakness of
- the Purify (and Insure++ also) is a limited set of supported platfoms. The
- 3rd product (Sentinel) is slightly worse then Purify but it supports a lot
- of UNIXes. Again: I did this 2 years ago - remember that everything changes;
- what I do know is that all of these products still exist. And one thing more:
- all this is my own opinion, nothing more.
-
- Best regards,
-
- --
- Anatoly Kardash
- Missing Link Ltd.
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