[dot] Valgrind receives Google-O'Reilly Award; Releases 3.2

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From: Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus at kde.org>
Dept: have-you-valgrinded-your-app-today?
Date: Wednesday 09/Aug/2006, @03:03

Valgrind receives  Google-O'Reilly Award; Releases 3.2
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   Julian Seward, father of the the famous Valgrind
[http://valgrind.kde.org], an opensource tool for debugging and
profiling your applications, won this years Google-O'Reilly Open Source
Award for "Best Toolmaker". This years ceremony was the second of the
annual event
[http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/07/and-winners-are.html].
Congratulations, Julian! In other news, Valgrind 3.2
[http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html] has been released. The
two most notable changes are huge speed and memory gains in Memcheck (up
to 30% faster) and the addition of the popular Cachegrind. Additionally,
the valgrind-based profiler frontend KCacheGrind
[http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi] is available as a
seperate package.