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by sjburt 556 days ago
Really curious about this:

> If you have access to a program named 'Purify' ... learn how to use it.

Anyone know what this was or use it?

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It's a memory debugger, in the same class of things as Valgrind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PurifyPlus

Fun fact: it was written by the cofounder and chairman of Netflix.

It's kind of like Valgrind and was (is? I'm not sure.) used for finding memory leaks.