I always wondered what Valgrind was. Well, here’s an interview with the author who wrote it. Basically, it’s a code profiler and debugger that’s being used by the KDE project. Very interesting indeed.

Valgrind is a CPU simulator which is used by KDE and many other projects to profile and debug our programmes. In the interview below Valgrind author Julian Seward talks to KDE Dot News about why he developed Valgrind, how you can use it and, most importantly, where the name comes from.

For more tips on using Valgrind, and also gdb, here’s a good article.

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