[Insight-developers] Missing ITK Valgrind? : Looking for Volunteers

[Sean McBride]

On 5/20/09 4:05 PM, kent williams said:

>Yeah. Valgrind works by tracking every variable mentioned in a program's
>symbol table. In order to check every memory access, it's running an
>interpreter that simulates a real-mode x86 CPU, so that every machine
>instruction is checked for what memory it reads and writes.
>
>Given that you're running the CPU in software with, a bunch of extra
>book-keeping, and hacking up malloc-level heap management so that out of
>bounds writes and reads are detected in dynamically allocated memory, 80x
>slowdown isn't that bad.

Doesn't this cause the tests to timeout?  Do you need to raise the
timeouts ridiculously high?

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