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+Usually I come across relatively well written pieces of code. That is
+code that is broken up with 50-60 lines per function and not 1000+
+line long functions. Recently I was given a code written by a
+scientist (I think he is a physicist), and it does some rather clever
+stuff scientifically. However everything is in one big main()
+function.
+
+The code mostly ran, and occassionally failed with no apparent
+reason. The first few things I did was to format/indent the code as
+much as I could and I started to replace all the malloc/free and some
+of the string functions with wrapper functions to sanitise everything.
+
+It then occured to me that I should probably run the code through
+[valgrind][] or something similar to debug the malloc/free
+calls. Traditionally I would have used electricfence during testing,
+bug fixing and development. I saw this opportunity to see what else is
+out there. I had known about [gc][] for a while but never really got
+around to using it, I'm quite happy to say that it's pretty easy to
+use and it seems okay for doing garbage collection. It is particularly
+useful but requires a small bit of work with existing codes.
+
+I was however surprised with [google-perftools][], I had realised that
+it was a malloc() replacement and that it provided a bunch of
+profiling and checking features. Best of it is relatively easy to use,
+short and concise. I've yet to read up on the garbage collection
+features in this library, assuming there is garbage collection. I can
+see myself using this library a bit more when I write C or when I have
+to fix someone elses code.
+
 [google-perftools]: http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/
 [gc]: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
+[valgrind]: http://valgrind.org/
 
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