Memory bugs are tricky. Leaks have a clear impact on performance, and quickly become hard to spot when heap allocated objects move too much. Memory access bugs, on the other hand, make your program crash right away, if you’re lucky. In less desirable cases, they may end up corrupting random objects on the heap, and […]
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KDE’s Akademy 2020 – A Quick Summary
What is Akademy? Akademy is the yearly conference for the KDE community, which is a community devoted to creating free software for desktop and mobile. Typically, Akademy takes place in a different city each year. However, due to the pandemic, the conference was online this time around. September 4-11 marked the dates of Akademy 2020. […]
Heaptrack Version 1.2.0 Released Maintenance release of the fast Linux heap memory profiler
We have just released version 1.2.0 of Heaptrack, the fast heap memory profiler for C++/Linux applications. A bit of Background The Heaptrack fast heap memory profiler allows you to track all heap memory allocations at run-time. Afterwards, you can use the accompanying GUI tool to find optimization opportunities in your code by analyzing the recorded […]
Hotspot Version 1.3.0 Released Overview of New Features and Improvements
We are pleased to announce a new release of our Hotspot Linux perf performance analysis GUI, Hotspot version 1.3.0! Hotspot is a replacement for perf reportthat takes a perf.data file, parses and evaluates its contents, and then displays the result in a graphical form. You can read a bit more about Hotspot here. Overview of […]
Débogage et profilage
d’applications C++ sous Linux
La formation “Débogage et profilage d’applications C++ sous Linux” enseigne les techniques de débogage et profilage d’applications sous Linux. Elle est en particulier (mais pas seulement) appropriée pour les applications utilisant la technologie objet Qt/C++. A l’issue de la formation, les participants seront capables d’appliquer leur nouveau savoir-faire pour la recherche et la résolution de […]
Slaying Latency with Linux Kernel Tracepoints
Knowing what tools are at your disposal when looking to make a program faster or keep it operating smoothly is critical to your success as a programmer. We recently solved a performance problem using Linux Kernel Tracepoints so we thought we’d share the process with you so that you can see for yourself if this […]