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  • Re: naughty Python

    From Chris Ahlstrom@3:633/10 to All on Monday, January 05, 2026 17:35:24
    rbowman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

    On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:57:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    <snip>

    It's been a day or three but I think I did. iirc it also had the charming feature of only manifesting in the Windows build, not in Linux where I had valgrind and electric fence.

    Another mystery is why memory debuggers on Windows are expensive and
    barely usable. We had a Purify license but configuring the instrumentation was such a hassle it was rarely used. When the license came up for renewal nobody spoke up to keep it. BoundsChecker reportedly is even worse.

    At work I was using a free product that was a lot like valgrind:
    Dr. Memory.

    <https://drmemory.org/>

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