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by Kevin Carlson

March 2007


March 26, 2007

You Need a Speedy Debugger


Debugging is a huge time investment for most development efforts. To reduce the percentage of overall development time spent in the debugging effort, you want your debug tools to perform. What governs the performance of a debug tool? It's all about memory access. Green Hills Software's Anderson MacKay breaks it all down for you in his article "Debugger Performance Matters: The Importance of Good Metrics."

Posted by Kevin Carlson at 01:34 PM  Permalink |


March 13, 2007

Low-level Familiarity


For the sake of productivity, we love to have tools and technologies that insulate us from the low-level implementation details of our projects. But as Ed Nisley points out in his column, there's really no substitute for understanding the details of your underlying hardware and software platform.

Posted by Kevin Carlson at 05:29 PM  Permalink |



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