DIOTA

[Sean McGlynn]

Forgot to mention, it's GPL :-)

On Thursday 16 January 2003 02:19, Sean McGlynn wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Thought I'd mention a nice looking piece of software which might be of
> interest to some people here. (Apologies if it isn't).
>
> DIOTA (Dynamic Instrumentation, Optimization and Transformation of
> Applications) looks fairly similar to Valgrind, although it takes a
> different approach to implementation (and it's only at a 0.5 release at the
> moment).
>
> Like Valgrind, it doesn't require any modification to existing code etc.
> One thing that might help some people is that it *does* support MMX, MMX2,
> SSE etc. instructions, so should be usable with NVidia's OpenGL drivers.
> Maybe someone here who uses Valgrind a lot might like to try it and give a
> comparison report.
>
> Website: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/diota/
>
> Latest Paper: http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/diota/doc/WBT2002.pdf
> (111KB, 11 pages, Sep 2002)
>
> The paper gives a brief comparison of itself and Valgrind on page 2.
> Konqueror is also mentioned (page 10) as a testcase for DIOTA's stability.
>
> Linux/IA32 only I'm afraid, although it is based on some earlier SPARC
> work.
>
> [disclaimer: haven't tried it myself yet[tm] ;-)]
>
> Cheers,
> Sean

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Sean McGlynn
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